Background
Methods
Data source and study sample
f
|
%
| |
---|---|---|
Gender | ||
Male
| 3949 | 45.0 |
Female
| 4831 | 55.0 |
missing
| 0 | 0 |
Net Financial Wealth
| ||
Wealth 1st fifth (highest)
| 1713 | 19.5 |
Wealth 2nd fifth
| 1736 | 19.8 |
Wealth 3d fifth
| 1727 | 19.7 |
Wealth 4th fifth
| 1751 | 19.9 |
Wealth 5th fifth (lowest)
| 1724 | 19.6 |
missing
| 129 | 1.5 |
Social Class
| ||
Managerial and professional
| 2415 | 27.5 |
Intermediate
| 1533 | 17.5 |
Small employees and own account workers
| 859 | 9.8 |
Lower supervisory and technical workers
| 968 | 11.0 |
Workers in semi-routine occupations
| 2736 | 31.2 |
missing
| 269 | 3.1 |
Net Household Income
| ||
Income 1st fifth (highest)
| 1643 | 18.7 |
Income 2nd fifth
| 1697 | 19.3 |
Income 3d fifth
| 1739 | 19.8 |
Income 4th fifth
| 1785 | 20.3 |
Income 5th fifth (lowest)
| 1916 | 21.8 |
missing
| 0 | 0 |
Marital Status
| ||
Married
| 4816 | 54.9 |
Others
| 3963 | 45.1 |
missing
| 1 | 0.01 |
Education
| ||
Degree/Higher education
| 2093 | 23.8 |
A level
| 575 | 6.5 |
O level/CSE grade
| 1870 | 21.3 |
Foreign/other
| 764 | 8.7 |
No qualifications
| 3468 | 39.5 |
missing
| 10 | 0.1 |
Housing Tenure
| ||
Owners
| 7168 | 81.6 |
Others
| 1595 | 18.2 |
missing
| 17 | 0.2 |
Ethnicity
| ||
White
| 8574 | 97.7 |
Not white
| 202 | 2.3 |
Missing
| 4 | 0 |
Current situation
| ||
Retired
| 4728 | 53.8 |
Not retired
| 4802 | 55.5 |
missing
| 74 | 0.7 |
Cognitive Ability (N = 8687)
|
Mean
|
Std Deviation
|
Age (N = 8687)
| -0.042 | 0.836 |
66.50 | 9.63 |
Measures and variables
Exposures - Socioeconomic Position
Mediators - Measures of the three explanatory pathways
Material resources
Psychosocial path
Health related behaviour-lifestyle
Outcomes - Measures of health
Somatic Health
Mental health
Confounders
Statistical Modelling
Results
CFI
|
TLI
|
RMSEA
| |
---|---|---|---|
SEP
|
0.914
|
0.922
|
0.064
|
Material resources
|
0.974
|
0.959
|
0.056
|
Psychosocial - Perceived control
|
0.951
|
0.948
|
0.064
|
Lifestyle
|
0.967
|
0.942
|
0.027
|
Somatic health
|
0.998
|
0.999
|
0.034
|
Depression
|
0.961
|
0.968
|
0.051
|
Well-being
|
0.992
|
0.994
|
0.062
|
Cognitive ability
|
0.994
|
0.995
|
0.044
|
Path analysis
| 0.967 | 0.903 | 0.069 |
Wave 2 Outcomes
|
Mediators
| ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Somatic Health
|
Depression
|
Well-being
|
Material
|
Psychosocial
|
Lifestyle
| ||
Gender (Female)
|
Direct
|
-0.203
| -0.013 |
0.089
|
-0.104
| 0.004 |
-0.048
|
Age
| Direct |
-0.368
|
-0.040
|
0.143
|
-0.251
| 0.024 |
-0.088
|
Marital status (Not Married)
| Direct |
-0.044
|
0.129
|
-0.188
|
-0.240
|
0.047
|
-0.060
|
Ethnicity (Non white)
| Direct |
-0.018
|
-0.053
| 0.005 |
-0.022
|
-0.029
| -0.019 |
Retirement
| Direct |
-0.075
|
0.058
| -0.003 |
-0.018
|
-0.079
|
-0.059
|
Cognitive ability
| Direct |
0.029
|
-0.028
|
0.077
|
0.129
|
0.148
|
0.117
|
Material
| Direct |
0.106
|
-0.050
|
0.062
|
0.198
| ||
Psychosocial
| Direct |
0.173
|
-0.393
|
0.530
| |||
Lifestyle
| Direct |
0.261
|
-0.124
|
0.034
| |||
SEP
| Direct |
0.418
|
0.085
|
0.301
| |||
Indirect via Material |
0.044
|
-0.021
|
0.026
| ||||
Indirect via Psychosocial |
0.015
|
-0.033
|
0.045
| ||||
Indirect via Lifestyle |
0.079
|
-0.037
|
0.010
| ||||
Indirect via Material & Psychosocial |
0.014
|
-0.033
|
0.044
| ||||
Total |
0.152
|
-0.124
|
0.125
|
Wave 4 Outcomes
| ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Somatic Health
|
Depression
|
Well-being
| ||
Somatic Health 2002
|
Direct
|
0.489
|
-0.214
|
0.044
|
Depression 2002
|
Direct
|
-0.099
|
0.259
|
-0.098
|
Well -being 2002
|
Direct
|
0.098
|
-0.209
|
0.488
|
Gender (Female)
|
Direct
|
0.075
|
-0.032
|
-0.047
|
Age
| Direct |
-0.102
|
0.043
|
-0.033
|
Marital status (Married)
| Direct | 0.012 |
0.024
|
-0.030
|
Ethnicity (Non white)
|
Direct
| 0.005 | -0.018 | -0.021 |
Retirement
|
Direct
|
-0.019
| 0.008 | -0.002 |
Cognitive ability
|
Direct
|
0.055
|
-0.028
|
-0.027
|
Material
| Direct |
0.067
|
-0.038
| 0.013 |
Psychosocial
| Direct |
0.100
|
-0.126
|
0.086
|
Lifestyle
| Direct |
0.101
|
-0.064
|
0.033
|
SEP
| Direct | |||
Indirect via Material |
0.027
|
-0.015
| 0.005 | |
Indirect via Psychosocial |
0.008
|
-0.010
|
0.007
| |
Indirect via Lifestyle |
0.029
|
-0.019
|
0.010
| |
Indirect via Material & Psychosocial |
0.008
|
-0.010
|
0.007
| |
Indirect via all Wave 2 variables*** |
0.096
|
-0.088
|
0.077
| |
Total |
0.168
|
-0.142
|
0.106
|