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We again used multilevel modeling to investigate these associations. However, we were only interested in husbands’ distress as our outcome, as follows: HAnxik = b0i + b1Daysik + b2Weeekendik + b3WAnxik + eijk. (4) As indicated previously, we specified the variance-covariance matrix as autoregressive. Each distress measure (anxiety, anger, and depression) was modeled separately, with all Level 1 coefficients specified as random. As hypothesized, wives’…

We identified all days on which wives reported at least moderate anxiety (2 or 3 on a 0–3 scale). We then examined the frequency, across all these days, of moderate to high (2 or 3 on a 0–3 scale) ratings on follow-up questions concerning the husbands’ influence on the wives’ anxiety that day. Wives reported…

We tested the moderation hypothesis in two separate multilevel analyses. The same model described in Equation 1 was used for each analysis. However, Level 2 equations included the following additional predictors as moderators: CIQ and DAS. Because we were interested in the effects of wives’ anxiety on wives’ and husbands’ relationship quality (denoted as b3w and b3h in Equation 1, respectively), b3w, and b3h were…

We used a multilevel statistical model to investigate these associations separately for positive and negative RQ. Multilevel modeling accounts for the bias in standard errors and statistical tests that result from nonindependent data and effectively handles “unbalanced” or missing data at the level of repeated observations by using all available data for participants. Inferences are…

Description of Sample Wives featured the following primary anxiety disorders: panic disorder with agoraphobia (PDA; n = 2; 6%), GAD (n = 9; 27.2%), SAD (n = 15; 45.5%), OCD (n = 5; 15.1%), and PTSD (n = 2; 6%). The majority were receiving treatment for their anxiety (84.8% in psychotherapy, 24.2% receiving psychotropic medication), although most were enrolled in this…

Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS; Spanier, 1976) The DAS is a widely used 32-item measure of global relationship quality. The summed total score, which ranges from 0 to 151 (higher scores reflect better functioning), was used to characterize global relationship functioning. Alpha was .90 for the total sample (.91 wives, .89 husbands). Daily Measures All standard deviations…