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 4 The results of the APIM with the number of family members as a moderating variable (n = 9560 couples)

APIM parameters	Role	Estimate	SE	95%CI
Intercept		− 0.11	0.06	− 0.23, 0.01
Number of family members		− 0.006	0.005	− 0.01, 0.003
Actor’s marital satisfaction * Number of family members		0.005	0.004	− 0.002, 0.01
Partner’s marital satisfaction * Number of family members		0.01*	0.004	0.002, 0.02
	Husband
Marital satisfaction (actor effect)		− 0.23***	0.03	− 0.28, − 0.17
Wife’s marital satisfaction (partner effect)		− 0.10	0.03	− 0.16, − 0.05
Number of family members * Marital satisfaction (actor effect)		0.009	0.006	− 0.003, 0.02
Number of family members * Wife’s marital satisfaction (partner effect)		0.002	0.006	− 0.01, 0.01
	Wife
Marital satisfaction (actor effect)		− 0.20***	0.03	− 0.26, − 0.15
Husband’s marital satisfaction (partner effect)		− 0.16***	0.03	− 0.22, − 0.10
Number of family members * Marital satisfaction (actor effect)		− 0.0006	0.006	− 0.01, 0.01
Number of family members * Husband’s marital satisfaction (partner effect)		0.02***	0.006	0.01, 0.03

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