Whereas another earlier survival analysis of the Wave 1 data (Dawson et al., 2006b) found that individuals still dependent ≥3 years after having married, divorced, or finished school were at reduced likelihood of subsequent NR, the current study did not support this apparent process of selection, whereby failure to respond quickly to major life events was hypothesized to be a marker of poor prognosis for future recovery. The shorter intervals since onset of dependence in the current sample may account for this inconsistency, in that many of the transitions occurring ≥3 years prior to baseline in the current sample would have occurred prior to the onset of dependence. The present study also did not replicate the positive association of AR with recently having become a parent from this earlier analysis but did find that having an infant in the household at baseline had significant positive association with AR (p=.037) as well as a positive association of marginal significance (p=.072) with NR. Only about 10% of the individuals who had a first child <3 years prior to baseline reported an infant
