Inequalities in the psychological well-being of employed, single and partnered mothers: the role of psychosocial work quality and work-family conflict

Table 2 Associations between partner status and psychological distress, adjusting for various combinations of explanatory factors^a.

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 5	Model 6
Unpartnered (compared to partnered)	0.09*	0.08*	0.04	0.06	0.06	-0.01
Age		-0.04				-0.06
Number of children		-0.10*				-0.08
Child ≤ 5 years of age living in household (compared to no young child)		-0.00				-0.03
Weekly work hours		-0.03				-0.07
Education (compared to university/college graduate)
Some post-secondary			0.11*			0.10*
High school or less			0.04			0.05
Perceived income adequacy			-0.19**			-0.13**
Psychosocial work quality (compared to low strain)
Active				0.12*		0.09
Passive				0.07		0.01
High strain				0.22**		0.12*
Work-family conflict
Time-based work-to-family					-0.02	-0.01
Strain-based work-to-family					0.06	0.03
Time-based family-to-work					-0.01	-0.01
Strain-based family-to- work					0.27**	0.26**

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