Table 2.

Full sample: Estimated direct effects of demographic and socioeconomic factors on social support and health literacy as measured by the NVS and BRIEF questionnaires.

	Social support*	NVS*	BRIEF*
Male/Female	0.02 [−0.04; 0.08]	0.01 [−0.05; 0.07]	0.05 [−0.01; 0.11]
Age	0.05 [−0.03; 0.15]	0.01 [−0.08; 0.10]	0.02 [−0.06; 0.10]
Education	−0.01 [−0.07; 0.05]	0.10 [0.03; 0.16]	0.13 [0.07; 0.20]
Self-perceived family wealth	0.11 [0.05; 0.18]	0.004 [−0.07; 0.07]	0.11 [0.05; 0.17]
Inactive or retired/Active or student	0.01 [−0.07; 0.08]	−0.03 [−0.11; 0.05]	−0.06 [-0.14; 0.02]
Unmarried/Married	−0.04 [−0.10; 0.02]	−0.01 [−0.07; 0.06]	−0.03 [−0.10; 0.03]
Divorced/Married	−0.04 [−0.10; 0.01]	−0.03 [−0.09; 0.03]	−0.05 [−0.11; 0.02]
Widowed/Married	−0.04 [−0.12; 0.02]	−0.07 [−0.14;−0.008]	−0.03 [-0.10; 0.04]
Subjective health	0.24 [0.16; 0.31]	0.08 [0.01; 0.16]	0.06 [-0.01; 0.14]
Social support	–	0.11 [0.04; 0.17]	0.10 [0.05; 0.16]

Overall fit statistics of the model: χ² (df) = 17.650 (10); χ²(p–value) = 0.061; CFI = 0.996; RMSEA = 0.026; PCLOSE = 0.978; GFI = 0.997. Significant associations are marked in bold.

^*β_d. [95%CI]: β_d: standardized direct path coefficients; [95%CI]: 95% confidence interval obtained by bias-corrected percentile method of bootstrapping. NVS, Newest Vital Sign, BRIEF, Brief Health Literacy Screening Tool.