Table 2.

Multiple linear regression analysis of the relationship between educational attainment, self-rated health, and depressive symptoms

	Model 1-self-rated health	Model 2- depressive symptoms
Educational attainment	0.006***	–0.168***
	(0.001)	(0.007)
CPC member (ref: no)	0.068***	–0.781***
	(0.011)	(0.088)
Marital status (ref: not married)	–0.018**	–2.188***
	(0.008)	(0.066)
Gender (ref: female)	0.203***	–1.344***
	(0.007)	(0.052)
Age	–0.023***	0.006***
	(0.000)	(0.002)
Residence area (ref: rural)	–0.053***	–0.650***
	(0.007)	(0.053)
Income level (ref: Low-income group)
Middle-income group	0.117***	–1.248***
	(0.008)	(0.065)
High-income group	0.165***	–1.886***
	(0.009)	(0.072)
Occupational type (ref: professional technicians and managers)
Business service workers and office workers	0.020	0.092
	(0.013)	(0.100)
Production workers	0.041***	0.215**
	(0.013)	(0.104)
Farmers and the unemployed	–0.019	–0.192**
	(0.013)	(0.098)
Geographic location (ref: western China)
Central China	0.084***	–1.460***
	(0.008)	(0.065)
Eastern China	0.070***	–1.788***
	(0.008)	(0.061)
Year
2014	0.199***
	(0.009)
2016	0.129***	–0.273***
	(0.009)	(0.067)
2018	0.155***	0.494***
	(0.010)	(0.069)
2020	0.233***	0.686***
	(0.011)	(0.076)
Constant	3.638***	39.068***
	(0.021)	(0.162)
Observations	140,389	103,581
R-squared	0.135	0.075

Standard errors in parentheses. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1.