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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2019 Sep 13;85:102353. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102353

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.