Table 3.

Structural equation analysis, unstandardized estimates

	Social trust			Stress			Self-reported health			Received help friends
	b	s.e.	p	b	s.e.	p	b	s.e.	p	b	s.e.	p
Friendship network
Heterogeneity	−0.365	0.127	0.004	0.245	0.095	0.010	−0.579	0.093	0.000	0.571	0.126	0.000
Contact with friends
Meeting	0.023	0.011	0.029	−0.056	0.008	0.000	0.040	0.008	0.000	0.097	0.011	0.000
Phone	0.005	0.010	0.654	−0.003	0.009	0.753	0.014	0.008	0.109	0.177	0.011	0.000
Internet	0.134	0.008	0.000	0.024	0.006	0.000	0.076	0.006	0.000	0.065	0.007	0.000
Number of
Close friends	0.034	0.002	0.000	−0.011	0.002	0.000	0.008	0.002	0.000	0.014	0.002	0.000
Other friends	0.004	0.001	0.006	−0.001	0.001	0.546	0.004	0.001	0.001	0.005	0.001	0.001
Other friends * heterogeneity	−0.015	0.005	0.002				−0.012	0.004	0.003
Control variables
Number of relatives	0.018	0.002	0.000	−0.005	0.001	0.000	0.008	0.001	0.000	0.003	0.002	0.114
Female	−0.077	0.020	0.000	0.096	0.015	0.000	−0.036	0.015	0.014	0.122	0.020	0.000
Married	0.195	0.022	0.000	−0.095	0.017	0.000	0.168	0.016	0.000	−0.215	0.022	0.000
Common law	−0.098	0.035	0.005	0.037	0.027	0.167	0.108	0.027	0.000	−0.166	0.036	0.000
Age	0.066	0.007	0.000	−0.045	0.005	0.000	−0.127	0.005	0.000	−0.101	0.007	0.000
Age2	−0.016	0.003	0.000	−0.068	0.002	0.000	−0.011	0.002	0.000	−0.021	0.003	0.000
R2	0.105			0.083			0.106			0.201

	Satisfaction life			Satisfaction job/main activity			Satisfaction finances			Satisfaction health			Affect balance
	b	s.e.	p	b	s.e.	p	b	s.e.	p	b	s.e.	p	b	s.e.	p
Benefits
Social trust	0.131	0.014	0.000	0.128	0.019	0.000	0.191	0.020	0.000	0.081	0.016	0.000	0.134	0.011	0.000
Stress	−0.416	0.009	0.000	−0.418	0.013	0.000	−0.343	0.014	0.000	−0.217	0.009	0.000	−0.270	0.008	0.000
Self-reported health	0.483	0.009	0.000	0.497	0.012	0.000	0.509	0.014	0.000	1.080	0.008	0.000	0.277	0.008	0.000
Received help	−0.085	0.020	0.000	−0.085	0.025	0.000	−0.100	0.020	0.000	−0.088	0.016	0.000	−0.052	0.011	0.000
Friendship network
Meeting friends	0.092	0.011	0.000	0.112	0.014	0.000	0.090	0.016	0.000				0.054	0.009	0.000
Control variables
Number of relatives	0.019	0.002	0.000	0.015	0.003	0.000	0.009	0.003	0.004	0.003	0.002	0.087	0.018	0.002	0.000
Female	0.207	0.022	0.000	0.239	0.029	0.000	0.152	0.032	0.000	0.021	0.021	0.306	0.134	0.018	0.000
Married	0.457	0.024	0.000	0.205	0.031	0.000	0.592	0.034	0.000	0.075	0.022	0.001	0.427	0.019	0.000
Common Law	0.458	0.041	0.000	0.299	0.050	0.000	0.447	0.055	0.000	0.106	0.036	0.003	0.388	0.031	0.000
Age	−0.067	0.008	0.000	0.042	0.010	0.000	0.090	0.011	0.000	−0.077	0.008	0.000	−0.055	0.006	0.000
Age2	0.029	0.003	0.000	0.014	0.004	0.001	0.038	0.005	0.000	0.007	0.003	0.030	0.014	0.003	0.000
R2	0.246			0.152			0.143			0.449			0.259

All estimates are unstandardized estimates based on 10 imputed datasets, significance levels reported are two-sided

Source: 2003 General Social Survey of Canada