Lifestyle choices and mental health: a longitudinal survey with German and Chinese students

BMC Public Health

Table 4 - Path analysis for the prediction of positive mental health and mental health problems by lifestyle choices in Chinese students

Outcome	Positive mental health (PMH)					Mental health problems (MHP)
Fixed effects	β	SE (β)	t	p	d	β	SE (β)	t	p	d
Cross-sectional analysis
Gender (male/female)	.01	0.01	0.70	.487	0.01	−.01	0.01	−1.08	.279	0.02
Age	.02	0.01	2.36	.018	0.05	−.03	0.01	−2.81	.005	0.05
Body mass index	.01	0.01	0.97	.332	0.01	.03	0.01	3.42	.001	0.07
Physical activity	.09	0.01	9.40	< .001	0.18	−.04	0.01	−4.62	< .001	0.09
Mental activity	.07	0.01	7.05	< .001	0.14	−.09	0.01	−9.77	< .001	0.19
Alcohol frequency	−.04	0.01	−4.12	< .001	0.08	.10	0.01	9.28	< .001	0.18
Smoking (no/yes)	−.03	0.01	−2.85	.004	0.05	.06	0.01	5.69	< .001	0.11
Vegetarian diet (no/yes)	.00	0.01	0.07	.943	0.00	.06	0.01	6.68	< .001	0.13
Social rhythm irregularity	−.29	0.01	−32.32	.000	0.62	.31	0.01	35.12	< .001	0.68
Longitudinal analysis
Baseline positive mental health (PMH)	.35	0.01	31.79	< .001	0.61	−.12	0.01	−10.18	< .001	0.20
Baseline mental health problems (MHP)	−.08	0.01	−7.17	< .001	0.14	.23	0.01	19.36	< .001	0.37
Gender (male/female)	.03	0.01	3.03	.002	0.06	−.12	0.01	−10.18	< .001	0.20
Age	.06	0.01	5.58	< .001	0.11	−.02	0.01	−2.17	.030	0.04
Body mass index	−.01	0.01	−0.99	.321	0.02	−.01	0.01	−0.83	.406	0.02
Physical activity	.04	0.01	3.27	.001	0.06	−.01	0.01	−0.91	.365	0.02
Mental activity	.03	0.01	2.82	.005	0.05	−.04	0.01	−3.74	< .001	0.07
Alcohol frequency	.00	0.01	−0.03	.975	0.00	.03	0.01	2.15	.031	0.04
Smoking (no/yes)	.00	0.01	0.27	.784	0.01	.06	0.01	5.05	< .001	0.10
Vegetarian diet (no/yes)	−.02	0.01	−2.28	.022	0.04	.06	0.01	5.65	< .001	0.11
Social rhythm irregularity	−.05	0.01	−4.73	< .001	0.09	.03	0.01	2.66	.008	0.05

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