Perceived availability of future care and depressive symptoms among older adults in China: evidence from CHARLS

BMC Geriatrics

Table 9 Coefficients for perceived availability of future care (PAFC) after adjusting for various control variables

Controls applied	Coefficients for PAFC predicting depression (no expected care support)	se	R-square for equation	Coefficients for PAFC predicting depression (no expected care support)	se	R-square for equation
	Lagged depression not controlled			Lagged depression controlled
	(n = 13,855)			(n = 10,458)
(0) None	2.085***	0.147	0.028	1.424***	0.133	0.261
(1) Predisposing	2.182***	0.136	0.077	1.516***	0.129	0.274
(2) Predisposing +financial	2.135***	0.133	0.104	1.503***	0.128	0.283
(3) Predisposing +health	1.692***	0.128	0.215	1.312***	0.126	0.330
(4) Predisposing +social	2.106***	0.129	0.129	1.532***	0.128	0.283
(5) All variables	1.620***	0.122	0.243	1.302***	0.125	0.342

Itemization of control variable groups is found in Table 1, and the full estimated model results are in Tables 4 and 5 in Appendix 1. PAFC = 1 if no care support. Data source: CHARLS 2013 with imputed family support data, weights are used. Lagged depression is derived from 2011 data
PAFC Perceived availability of future care, se standard error
* p < .10; *** p < .05; ***p < .01

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