Table 5.

Estimates of direct, indirect, and total effects of childhood and adulthood conditions on survival probability, based on the male sub-sample (N = 5,247 cases)

Dependent latent variable	Independent latent variables and control variables	Direct effect on healtd (A)	Indirect effect on healtd via adultdood SES (B)	Total effect on healtd (A + B)
Survival probability	Childhood conditions	c = −0.14	a × b = 0.65 × 0.37 = 0.24***	0.10
	Adulthood SES	b = 0.37***	N.A.	0.37
	Age	e = −0.52***	d × b = −0.05 × 0.37 = −0.02***	−0.54
Adulthood SES		Effects on adulthood SES
	Childhood conditions	a = 0.65***
	Age	d = −0.05***

Note:

^*P < 0.05;

^**P < 0.01;

^***P < 0.001.

Goodness of model fit: Root mean square error of approximation = 0.080; goodness-of-fit index = 0.98; comparative-fit index = 0.81.