Association between internet use and successful aging of older Chinese women: a cross-sectional study

BMC Geriatrics

Table 5 Mediating effect of social capital using KHB mediation analysis

	Successful aging
Internet use frequency
Reduced (total effect)	0.140***
Reduced (total effect)	(0.035)
Full (direct effect)	0.129***
Full (direct effect)	(0.035)
Indirect effect (mediating effect of social capital)	0.011**
Indirect effect (mediating effect of social capital)	(0.004)
Confounding percentage	7.83%
Observations	2713

Controls: age, marital status, education, household registration, number of children, living environment, industry, logarithm of total income, lifestyle of regular exercise, and province; Standard errors in parentheses; *** p < 0.001, ** p < 0.01

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