Table 4.

Influences of living without parents at different stages before adulthood on individual mental health in adulthood between different genders, China, 2018.

Variables	Mental health (OLS)
	(1) Male	(2) Female	(3) Male	(4) Female	(5) Male	(6) Female	(7) Male	(8) Female
Living without parents (0–6 years)	2.014***	3.246***
	(0.689)	(0.651)
Living without parents (7–12 years)			1.793***	2.634***
			(0.672)	(0.621)
Living without parents (13–15 years)					0.971*	1.755***
					(0.578)	(0.566)
Living without parents (16–18 years)							0.475	0.999**
							(0.498)	(0.469)
Control variables	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Region	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
n	1,574	1,890	1,574	1,890	1,574	1,890	1,574	1,890
R-squared	0.045	0.071	0.044	0.067	0.041	0.063	0.040	0.061

Standard errors in parentheses;

^***p < 0.01,

^**p < 0.05,

^*p < 0.1; “Yes” means the variable is added to the model.