Assessing quality of life using WHOQOL-BREF: a cross-sectional study on the association between quality of life and neighborhood environmental satisfaction, and the mediating effect of health-related behaviors

Table 6 Effects of overall levels of satisfaction with neighborhood environment and health-related behaviors in predicting psychological QOL

	Psychological QOL
	Multiple Linear Regression		Pearson’s Correlation
	β	P	r	P
Model 1
Environment Satisfactory levels*
Moderate	0.143	0.022	0.153	0.003
High	0.036	0.560	−0.031	0.291
Smoking status*
Non-smoking	0.157	0.005	0.178	0.001
Model 2
Environment Satisfactory levels*
Moderate	0.180	0.004	0.153	0.003
High	0.042	0.498	−0.031	0.291
Alcohol drinking*
Never	0.070	0.575	0.021	0.356
Occasionally	0.024	0.849	−0.020	0.364
Model 3
Environment Satisfactory levels*
Moderate	0.133	0.071	0.135	0.019
High	0.006	0.937	−0.049	0.224
Physical activity levels*
High	0.180	0.056	0.080	0.108
Moderate	0.143	0.128	0.012	0.427
Model 4
Environment Satisfactory levels*
Moderate	0.170	0.014	0.146	0.009
High	0.030	0.669	−0.030	0.315
Walking activity	0.105	0.090	0.095	0.061
Model 5
Environment Satisfactory levels*
Moderate	0.133	0.071	0.135	0.019
High	−0.003	0.964	− 0.049	0.224
Total physical activity	0.103	0.117	0.103	0.056

^*The overall satisfactory levels of environment, smoking status, alcohol drinking, and physical activity levels were converted to dummy variables

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