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 5 The results of the APIM with the number of family members and the number of children as moderators (n = 9560 couples)

APIM parameters	Role	Estimate	SE	95%CI
Intercept		− 0.16*	0.08	− 0.31, − 0.01
Number of family members		− 0.01	0.01	− 0.03, 0.01
Number of children		0.06*	0.02	0.01, 0.11
	Husband
Number of children * Marital satisfaction (actor effect)		− 0.005	0.02	− 0.04, 0.03
Number of children * Wife’s marital satisfaction (partner effect)		− 0.06**	0.02	− 0.1, − 0.02
Number of children * Number of family members * Marital satisfaction (actor effect)		0.004	0.003	− 0.002, 0.009
Number of children * Number of family members * Wife’s marital satisfaction (partner effect)		0.003	0.003	− 0.003, 0.009
	Wife
Number of children * Marital satisfaction (actor effect)		0.02	0.02	− 0.02, 0.06
Number of children * Husband’s marital satisfaction (partner effect)		− 0.06**	0.02	− 0.10, − 0.02
Number of children * Number of family members * Marital satisfaction (actor effect)		− 0.002	0.003	− 0.008, 0.004
Number of children * Number of family members * Husband’s marital satisfaction (partner effect)		0.01***	0.003	0.005, 0.02

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