Social support and depressive symptoms among family caregivers of older people with disabilities in four provinces of urban China: the mediating role of caregiver burden

Table 3 Association between social support, caregiver burden and depressive symptoms of caregivers (stratified by the different relation to care-recipients)

Variables	Model 1 (spouse)		Model 2 (children)		Model 3 (others)
Variables	β	SE	β	SE	β	SE
Social support	−0.283**	0.053	−0.246**	0.042	−0.111	0.122
Caregiver burden	0.556**	0.071	0.551**	0.044	0.398**	0.099
Older people with disabilities
Age	0.066	0.068	0.001	0.057	0.027	0.094
Gender^a: Female	−0.111	0.304	−0.065	0.083	0.192	0.232
Barthel index	0.141*	0.065	0.113*	0.052	0.176	0.128
Cognitive function	0.215**	0.059	0.056	0.048	0.046	0.111
Caregiver
Age	0.015	0.034	0.129	0.152	0.161	0.308
Gender^b: Female	−0.008	0.313	0.226**	0.079	−0.111	0.310
Hours of care per day	−0.182*	0.078	−0.080	0.043	−0.105	0.155
Caregiver duration	−0.084	0.054	−0.092*	0.040	−0.076	0.193
Self-rated health^c
Fair	−0.256*	0.128	−0.256*	0.113	−0.269	0.412
Good	−0.246	0.160	−0.613**	0.121	−0.614	0.392
Adj R^b	49.87%		52.68%		29.84%

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