Table 8.

Mediating effect of social activities and moderating effect of health satisfaction.

	(1)	(2)
Variables	Social activities	Depression
Intergenerational care(no = 0)	0.044***	−0.334**
	(3.63)	(−2.28)
Intergenerational care*health satisfaction		−0.587*
		(−1.75)
Gender(female = 0)	−0.079***	−1.040***
	(−6.49)	(−7.03)
Std-Age	−0.024***	−0.175**
	(−3.76)	(−2.34)
Education level(Not receiving education = 0)
Primary education	0.099***	−0.875***
	(6.85)	(−4.74)
Secondary education	0.179***	−2.330***
	(10.34)	(−11.22)
Higher education	0.325***	−3.602***
	(11.53)	(−11.42)
Marital status(no spouse = 0)	−0.065***	−1.141***
	(−4.11)	(−5.76)
Living arrangements(not living with children = 0)	−0.043***	−0.356**
	(−3.45)	(−2.43)
Financial support from son to father(no financial support = 0)	0.028**	0.309**
	(2.39)	(2.16)
Financial support from father to son(no financial support = 0)	0.074***	−0.868***
	(5.91)	(−5.89)
Satisfaction with relationship with children(Unsatisfied = 0)	0.009	−4.559***
	(0.32)	(−11.75)
Health satisfaction(Unsatisfied = 0)	0.053***	−5.362***
	(4.13)	(−31.34)
Constant	0.406***	19.931***
	(12.92)	(45.66)
Observations	7,591	7,591
Adjusted R-squared	0.043	0.229
Prob>F	0.000	0.000

Data source: China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study Wave 4 (2018). Standard errors in parentheses, *p < 0.1; **p < 0.05; ***p < 0.01; this table applies mixed OLS regressions.