Table 2.

Association between health literacy, social support and depressive symptom.

Variables	Model 1 a		Model 2 b		Model 3 a		Model 4 a
	β	SE	β	SE	β	SE	β	SE
Health literacy	−0.248 **	0.035	0.294 **	0.035			−0.115 **	0.033
Social support					−0.500**	0.033	−0.464 **	0.034
Gender 1
Female	−0.086	0.076	0.233 **	0.073	0.060	0.068	0.034	0.068
Academic performance 2
Fair	−0.121	0.086	0.086	0.084	−0.106	0.077	−0.087	0.077
Good	−0.276	0.098	0.197 *	0.095	−0.214 *	0.088	−0.192 *	0.088
Birthplace 3
Town	−0.092	0.097	0.108	0.094	−0.049	0.087	−0.040	0.087
County	−0.064	0.089	0.083	0.086	−0.041	0.080	−0.040	0.080
Father’s education 4
Higher school and above	0.020	0.091	0.124	0.088	0.088	0.081	0.080	0.081
Mother’s education
Higher school and above	0.198 *	0.089	−0.218 *	0.086	0.073	0.079	0.098	0.079
Family economic status 5
Fair	−0.091	0.147	0.386	0.144 **	0.102	0.134	0.105	0.133
Poor	−0.374 **	0.108	0.488	0.106 **	−0.133	0.099	−0.130	0.099
Self-rated health 6
Fair	−0.466 **	0.161	0.445 **	0.157	−0.281	0.146	−0.264	0.145
Poor	−0.207	0.158	0.196	0.154	−0.118	0.142	−0.123	0.141
Adj R2	12.7%		17.7%		29.3%		30.4%

¹: reference = male; ²: reference = poor; ³: reference = city; ⁴: reference = below high school; ⁵: reference = good; ⁶: reference = good; ^a: Dependent variable = depressive symptoms; ^b: Dependent variable = social support; * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01.