Association between social capital and frailty and the mediating effect of health-promoting lifestyles in Chinese older adults: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Linear regression analysis for the association between social capital and frailty (N = 674)

Variables	Frailty			Physical frailty			Psychological frailty			Social frailty
Variables	Beta	t	P	Beta	t	P	Beta	t	P	Beta	t	P
Age	0.057	1.779	0.076	0.113	3.382	0.001	−0.043	−1.186	0.236	−0.008	−0.220	0.826
Sex	0.015	0.474	0.635	0.063	1.849	0.065	−0.081	−2.187	0.029	0.033	0.864	0.388
Residence	−0.288	−7.833	< 0.001	−0.304	−7.959	< 0.001	− 0.151	−3.614	< 0.001	− 0.045	− 1.042	0.298
Education level	− 0.100	−2.762	0.006	− 0.098	−2.593	0.010	− 0.091	− 2.194	0.029	0.032	0.739	0.460
Marital status	−0.075	−2.357	0.019	−0.029	−0.893	0.372	< 0.001	0.005	0.996	−0.232	−6.179	< 0.001
Monthly family income	−0.030	−0.912	0.362	0.008	0.243	0.808	−0.062	−1.652	0.099	−0.036	−0.927	0.354
Self-rated health	−0.347	−10.059	< 0.001	−0.340	−9.452	< 0.001	− 0.208	−5.286	< 0.001	−0.089	−2.165	0.031
Structural social capital	0.017	0.464	0.643	0.019	0.501	0.616	0.004	0.107	0.915	0.008	0.177	0.859
Cognitive social capital	−0.226	−6.034	< 0.001	− 0.128	−3.269	0.001	− 0.220	− 5.153	< 0.001	−0.175	−3.942	< 0.001
R²	0.369			0.317			0.178			0.113
F	43.056***			34.197***			16.026***			9.406***

Note: ***p < 0.001, beta = standardized regression coefficients, R² = coefficient of determination

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