The effect of marital satisfaction on the self-assessed depression of husbands and wives: investigating the moderating effects of the number of children and neurotic personality

Table 3 The results of the control variables and main effects model analysis (n = 9560 couples)

APIM parameters	Role	Estimate	SE	95%CI
Intercept		− 0.14*	0.06	− 0.25, − 0.03
Age		− 0.006***	0.0007	− 0.007, − 0.004
Region		− 0.09***	0.009	− 0.10, − 0.07
Educational level		− 0.06***	0.008	− 0.08, − 0.05
Ethnic composition		0.02	0.03	− 0.04, 0.07
Employ		− 0.04***	0.009	− 0.06, − 0.02
Health		0.22***	0.006	0.20, 0.23
Smoking frequency		0.07***	0.02	0.04, 0.11
Monthly after-tax income		− 0.03	0.02	− 0.07, 0001
Medical expenses		0.10***	0.01	0.08, 0.12
Gender		0.02*	0.008	0.0007, 0.03
	Husband
Marital satisfaction (actor effect)		− 0.19***	0.01	− 0.21, − 0.17
Wife’s marital satisfaction (partner effect)		− 0.09***	0.01	− 0.11, − 0.07
	Wife
Marital satisfaction (actor effect)		− 0.21***	0.01	− 0.23, − 0.19
Husband’s marital satisfaction (partner effect)		− 0.06***	0.01	− 0.08, − 0.04

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