Table 4.
Maximum Likelihood Parameter Estimates for the Relationships between Educational Achievement, Depression, and Educational Attainment in the Long Run (Model 3)
| Model 3 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parameter | Unstandardized | SE | Standardized | P-value (two-tailed) |
| Achievement 2000 → Depression 2009 | −0.160 | 0.065 | −0.413 | 0.015 |
| Achievement 2000 → Years of Education | 0.074 | 0.007 | 0.281 | 0.000 |
| Depression 2009 → Years of Education | −0.038 | 0.019 | −0.056 | 0.046 |
| Depression 2009 → Depression 2015 | 0.153 | 0.030 | 0.187 | 0.000 |
| Years of Education → Depression 2015 | −0.242 | 0.089 | −0.200 | 0.006 |
| Family Income Per Capita → Achievement 2000 | 0.267 | 0.103 | 0.058 | 0.010 |
| Parents’ Education → Achievement 2000 | 0.606 | 0.094 | 0.153 | 0.000 |
| Family Income Per Capita → Years of Education | 0.115 | 0.029 | 0.096 | 0.000 |
| Parents’ Education → Years of Education | 0.264 | 0.024 | 0.254 | 0.000 |
| Goodness-of-fit Test Statistics | ||||
| χ2 (df) | 4.792 (7) | |||
| p-value | 0.685 | |||
| RMSEA | 0.000 | |||
| CFI | 1.000 | |||
| TLI | 1.003 | |||
Note: Number of observations is 2,000.
Data from GSCF 2000, 2009, 2015.
Standardized Root Mean Square Residual (SRMR) is not reported because of missing values.