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Table 2 Network measures by selected variables in the KSHAP: Complete network

From: Social network properties and self-rated health in later life: comparisons from the Korean social life, health, and aging project and the national social life, health and aging project

  

In-degree centrality

Out-degree centrality

All-closeness centrality

Betweenness centrality

Brokerage: coordinator

Brokerage: representative

Brokerage: gatekeeper

Age

≤64

1.95

2.16

0.0600

0.0022

2.83

0.18

0.25

65-74

2.09

2.26

0.0669

0.0022

3.34

0.12

0.09

≥75

1.71

2.18

0.0678

0.0016

2.36

0.29

0.13

p-value

0.01

0.65

0.07

0.48

0.01

0.18

0.09

Gender

Male

2.09

2.40

0.0683

0.0023

3.33

0.35

0.25

Female

1.81

2.07

0.0642

0.0018

2.57

0.08

0.05

p-value

0.01

0.00

0.10

0.27

0.01

0.00

0.00

Marital status

Living with spouse

2.10

2.36

0.0678

0.0023

3.31

0.23

0.17

Separated/divorced/widowed

1.39

1.76

0.0604

0.0009

1.65

0.07

0.01

p-value

0.00

0.00

0.01

0.01

0.00

0.10

0.01

Education

None

1.78

2.03

0.0679

0.0021

2.29

0.19

0.05

Elementary school/Seodang

2.04

2.38

0.0675

0.0023

3.45

0.23

0.18

≥Middle school

1.91

2.14

0.0613

0.0015

2.73

0.11

0.12

p-value

0.16

0.00

0.07

0.35

0.00

0.50

0.10

Self-rated health

Poor/Somewhat Poor

1.74

2.10

0.0632

0.0016

2.50

0.11

0.05

Good

2.01

2.34

0.0684

0.0024

3.19

0.28

0.19

Very good/excellent

2.44

2.00

0.0654

0.0014

3.21

0.10

0.19

p-value

0.00

0.01

0.13

0.19

0.06

0.13

0.02

Overall weighted mean

1.92

2.21

0.0659

0.0020

2.89

0.19

0.13

SD

1.60

1.29

0.0358

0.0065

4.10

1.18

0.73

Skewness

1.48

0.73

−0.93

5.58

2.56

10.01

7.14