Social participation and mental health: moderating effects of gender, social role and rurality

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Descriptive statistics

	Men (n = 1,541)		Women (n = 1,187)
	n	%	n	%
Age
65-69	707	45.9	539	45.4
70-74	491	31.9	337	28.4
75-79	237	15.4	205	17.3
≥80	106	6.9	106	8.9
Equivalised annual income (million yen)
<1.50	200	13.0	246	20.7
1.50-1.99	290	18.8	187	15.8
2.00-2.49	373	24.2	251	21.1
2.50-2.99	105	6.8	89	7.5
3.00-3.49	232	15.1	141	11.9
3.50-3.99	136	8.8	102	8.6
4.00-4.49	80	5.2	73	6.1
4.50-4.99	45	2.9	42	3.5
≥5.00	80	5.2	56	4.7
Years of education
<6	19	1.2	39	3.3
6-9	728	47.2	621	52.3
10-12	507	32.9	441	37.2
≥13	287	18.6	86	7.2
GDS_15
Depressive symptoms (≧5)	196	12.7	185	15.6
Non-depressed (≦4)	1345	87.3	1002	84.4
Marital status
Married and spouse is alive	1450	94.1	767	64.6
Other	91	5.9	420	35.4
Role in social participation
Having a certain key role	659	42.8	336	28.3
Other	882	57.2	851	71.7
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Social participation (0 - 8)^a	1.82	1.45	1.72	1.37
Neighborhood-level variable
	Mean		SD
Rate of workers engaged in primary industry	11.56		10.98

^a Social participation shown in this table is not the 1st principal component score but the simple sum of 8 items.

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