Table 4 The mediating effects of frequency of physical activity (Model 5), frequency of social interaction with neighbours (Model 6) and volunteering experience (Model 7) on the relationship between neighbourhood social reciprocity and CES-D score; the multiple mediation effect (Model 8); the conditional effects of neighbourhood social reciprocity depending on the effects of the mediators; three-level multilevel longitudinal models (n = 24,620 in 450 neighbourhoods)
| Â | Model 5 | Model 6 | Model 7 | Model 8 | Model 9 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mediation variable | (log) Physical activity | Frequency of social interactions with neighbours | The odds of having volunteering experience | Multiple mediation | Conditional mediation | |||||
Beta | (SE) | Beta | (SE) | Beta | (SE) | Beta | (SE) | Beta | (SE) | |
(Log) physical activity | −0.035*** | 0.008 |  |  |  |  | − 0.032*** | 0.008 | − 0.034*** | 0.009 |
Frequency of social interaction (neighbours) |  |  | −0.234*** | 0.031 |  |  | −0.227*** | 0.031 | −0.226*** | 0.031 |
Volunteering (ref: no) |  |  |  |  | −0.736*** | 0.209 | −0.663*** | 0.209 | −0.707*** | 0.228 |
High social reciprocity (ref: low social reciprocity) | −0.169** | 0.084 | −0.047** | 0.022 | −0.127** | 0.064 | −0.101** | 0.050 | −0.104** | 0.050 |
Neighbourhood social reciprocity | −0.577** | 0.282 | −0.581** | 0.287 | −0.562** | 0.280 | −0.540** | 0.269 | −0.569** | 0.272 |
Cross-level interaction terms | ||||||||||
 Neighbourhood social reciprocity × (log) physical activities |  |  | −0.432** | 0.211 | ||||||
 Neighbourhood social reciprocity × frequency of social interactions with neighbours |  |  | −0.211** | 0.098 | ||||||
Neighbourhood social reciprocity × Volunteering (ref: no) |  | −1.047 | 2.049 | |||||||
 Akaike information criterion (AIC) | 154,453.000 | 154,450.100 | 154,471.600 | 154,421.100 | 154,423.200 | |||||