A follow-up LMM was then run to test the robustness of the observed early caregiving and age 23 romantic quality interactions by including the covariates discussed previously. Child and marital status data were available at ages 23, 26, and 32; thus, these variables were incorporated in the Level 1 equation to assess the longitudinal covariation between anxious-depressed symptoms and whether the participant was married and/or had a child. The other control variables were added to the Level 2 equation related to the intercepts, with the exception that the one variable that could change between ages 23 and 32 (i.e., whether the participant was with the same partner during this time period) was also added to the Level 2 equation related to slope in order to test whether it moderated change in anxious-depressed symptoms over time. Thus, the equations were: Level 1: Anxious-Depressed Symptomsij = ß1i + ß2iMarital Statusij + ß3iChild Statusij + ß4itij + eijLevel 2: ß1i = ß1 + ß5Genderi + ß6Relationship Stability 23-32i + ß7Living with partner (Age 23)i + ß8 Relationship Length (Age 23)i + ß9Maternal Depressive
