The impact of residential environment on older people’s capabilities to live independently: a survey in Beijing

Chen, Mengyuan; Bolt, Gideon; Hooimeijer, Pieter

doi:10.1186/s12889-024-18262-x

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Results of the hierarchical multiple regression

From: The impact of residential environment on older people’s capabilities to live independently: a survey in Beijing

Dependent Variable	Physical Capability					Social Capability					Psychological Capability
	Model 1a	Model 2a	Model 3a	Model 4a		Model 1b	Model 2b	Model 3b	Model 4b		Model 1c	Model 2c	Model 3c	Model 4c
	B	B	B	B	S.E	B	B	B	B	S.E	B	B	B	B	S.E
(Intercept)	-0.463***	-0.171	0.162	0.150	0.147	-0.264***	-0.789***	-0.547***	-0.553***	0.111	-0.318***	-0.503***	-0.170	-0.162	0.139
Neighborhood type: (ref = traditional hutong)
Former Danwei	0.457***	0.281***	0.123	0.126	0.076	0.313***	0.145*	0.071	0.069	0.057	0.411***	0.243**	0.116	0.110	0.072
Commercial housing	0.694***	0.465***	0.160	0.161	0.089	0.366***	0.145*	0.019	0.013	0.067	0.437***	0.200*	-0.008	-0.018	0.084
Urban village	0.432***	0.237*	0.184	0.191*	0.095	0.195*	0.083	0.091	0.093	0.072	0.170	-0.010	0.018	0.016	0.091
Frailty		-0.302***	-0.275***	-0.275***	0.020		-0.098***	-0.077***	-0.075***	0.015		-0.149***	-0.120***	-0.118***	0.019
Male		0.030	0.038	0.038	0.047		0.000	0.011	0.014	0.036		-0.036	-0.017	-0.014	0.045
Local hukou		-0.068	-0.052	-0.058	0.063		0.109*	0.132**	0.129**	0.047		-0.079	-0.052	-0.052	0.060
Married		-0.010	-0.011	-0.013	0.047		-0.027	-0.024	-0.030	0.036		0.088	0.085	0.079	0.045
Education:(ref = max. primary school)
Junior high or senior high		0.082	0.069	0.068	0.056		0.106*	0.085*	0.084*	0.042		0.054	0.030	0.029	0.053
University or above		-0.017	-0.010	-0.014	0.077		0.139*	0.149*	0.149*	0.058		0.094	0.108	0.111	0.073
Income a: (ref = < 3000 yuan)
3000–5000 yuan		0.056	0.053	0.056	0.068		0.016	0.023	0.017	0.051		-0.029	-0.029	-0.038	0.064
≥ 5000 yuan		0.139	0.068	0.066	0.073		0.082	0.018	0.007	0.055		0.137	0.045	0.033	0.069
Social Network		0.019***	0.014***	0.014***	0.004		0.032***	0.023***	0.024***	0.003		0.023***	0.014***	0.014***	0.004
Instrumental help		0.046*	0.013	0.015	0.020		0.032*	0.015	0.018	0.015		0.064**	0.032	0.033	0.019
Perceived accessibility			0.238***	0.240***	0.046			0.126***	0.135***	0.035			0.195***	0.206***	0.044
Pleasant surroundings			0.079*	0.075*	0.037			0.065*	0.058*	0.028			0.066	0.060	0.035
Meeting opportunities			0.038	0.038	0.044			0.256***	0.252***	0.033			0.188***	0.185***	0.042
Life convenience			0.089*	0.091*	0.038			0.049	0.051	0.029			0.153***	0.155***	0.036
*Frailty Home accessibility**				-0.004	0.031				0.000	0.023				0.020	0.029
*Frailty Pleasant surroundings**				-0.024	0.027				-0.022	0.020				-0.018	0.025
*Frailty Meeting opportunities**				0.021	0.033				0.090***	0.025				0.086**	0.031
*Frailty Life convenience**				0.004	0.027				-0.001	0.021				-0.007	0.026
N (Observations)	650	650	650	650		650	650	650	650		650	650	650	650
Adjusted R²	0.076	0.387	0.452	0.450		0.041	0.293	0.417	0.426		0.050	0.242	0.362	0.366

Significance levels: * p < 0.05, **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001

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