Community social capital and the health-related quality of life among empty-nest elderly in western China: moderating effect of living arrangements

Table 4 Hierarchical multiple regression of the relationship between social capital, living arrangements and MCS of empty-nest elderly

Variables	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3		Model 4
Variables	β	t	β	t	β	t	β	t
Age (65–79)	0.042	1.014	0.041	0.994	0.043	1.054	0.052	1.274
Gender (Male)	-0.029	-0.576	-0.033	-0.668	-0.030	-0.621	-0.028	-0.584
Marital status (Married)	0.000	0.007	-0.021	-0.496	0.053	0.976	0.059	1.082
Education (Not attending primary school)
Primary school	0.004	0.071	0.011	0.220	0.008	0.155	0.003	0.063
Junior high school	0.138	2.552^**	0.118	2.212^*	0.112	2.108^*	0.107	2.008^*
High school	0.067	1.367	0.062	1.278	0.060	1.260	0.050	1.032
College school and above	0.081	1.753	0.089	1.957	0.087	1.924	0.090	1.984^*
Employment (Unemployment)	0.055	1.248	0.096	2.187^*	0.103	2.342^*	0.104	2.384^*
Chronic disease (Yes)	-0.062	-1.179	-0.051	-0.993	-0.047	-0.906	-0.039	-0.757
Two weeks of illness (Yes)	0.114	2.194^**	0.089	1.747	0.083	1.624	0.079	1.557
Drinking (Yes)	-0.003	-0.081	0.013	0.315	0.012	0.292	0.015	0.353
Smoking status (Yes)
Have given up smoking	0.009	0.188	0.002	0.042	0.003	0.058	0.014	0.284
No	0.030	0.538	0.017	0.321	0.017	0.304	0.021	0.384
Weekly exercise frequency (Less than 3 times)	0.122	3.056 ^**	0.091	2.301^*	0.085	2.149	0.078	1.966^*
Sleep time (Less than 8 h)	0.129	3.266^**	0.142	3.652^***	0.141	3.660^***	0.143	3.696^***
Annual physical examination (No)	-0.032	-0.795	-0.016	-0.396	-0.019	-0.477	-0.027	-0.675
SSC (Low)			0.066	1.638	0.060	1.491	0.064	1.596
CSC (Low)			0.205	5.158^***	0.213	5.349^***	0.212	5.330^***
Living arrangements(Living with spouse)					-0.112	-2.163*	-0.109	-2.096^*
SSC × Living arrangements							0.055	1.397
CSC × Living arrangements							-0.079	-2.018^*
R²	0.246		0.322		0.333		0.344
F	2.501^**		3.986^***		4.045^***		3.939^***

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