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Published in final edited form as: Fam Process. 2022 Jan 5;61(4):1593–1609. doi: 10.1111/famp.12749

Table 3.

Predicting Health Outcomes in 2017 (N=254).

Panel A. Wives’ Health Outcomes in 2017

	Global Poor Health	BMI	Loneliness	Control	Life Satisfaction

Financial Strain	0.16^** (0.04)	0.14 (0.36)	2.70^** (0.37)	−0.08 (0.05)	−0.43^** (0.15)
Consistently High Intimacy Group	−0.05 (.09)	−0.96 (0.68)	−0.25^** (0.07)	0.19^* (0.09)	0.76^** (0.29)
Moderate & Increasing Group	−0.25^* (0.12)	−0.65 (1.00)	−0.29^* (0.12)	0.32^* (0.15)	1.15^* (0.46)
Consistently High Intimacy Group × Financial Strain	−0.19^* (0.09)	−1.86^* (0.72)	---	---	---
Lagged Health	0.31^** (0.07)	0.99^** (0.06)	0.17^** (0.07)	0.32^** (0.05)	−0.65^** (0.18)
Age	0.01 (0.01)	−0.17 (0.68)	0.02 (0.02)	0.01 (0.01)	0.03 (0.03)

R²	0.26	0.66	0.16	0.21	0.18

Panel B. Husbands’ Health Outcomes in 2017

	Global Poor Health	BMI	Loneliness	Control	Life Satisfaction

Financial Strain	0.15^** (0.05)	0.57^* (0.28)	0.12^* (0.04)	−0.05 (0.05)	−0.57^** (0.15)
Consistently High Intimacy Group	−0.02 (0.12)	0.60 (0.60)	−0.27^** (0.07)	0.12 (0.08)	0.52^* (0.26)
Moderate & Increasing Group	0.15 (0.16)	0.69 (0.60)	−0.28^* (0.12)	0.11 (0.14)	0.72^** (0.40)
Consistently High Intimacy Group × Financial Strain	---	−1.87^* −0.92	---	---	---
Lagged Health	0.46^* (0.06)	0.92^* (0.06)	0.05 (0.04)	0.46^** (0.08)	−0.01 (0.02)
Age	0.01 (0.01)	−0.01 (0.01)	0.01 (0.01)	−0.01 (0.06)	−0.01 (0.02)

R²	0.29	0.59	0.13	0.23	0.16

Note. N = 254 couples; standardized coefficients are shown with standard errors in parentheses; All the other outcomes variables were controlled for the lagged measure. Chronically low intimacy was the reference group; only statistically significant interactions were included in the models.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.