Table 3.

Correlations among structural social support, functional social support, and loneliness in older adults by region.

Variable	Structural social support	Functional social support
Structural social support	1
Functional social support	0.35** (0.37**, 0.39**, 0.32**)	1
Loneliness	−0.22** (−0.13*, −0.28**, −0.24**)	−0.30** (−0.22**, −0.33**, −0.32**)

Values outside the parenthesis represent the correlation coefficients of the whole sample; values inside the parenthesis represent the correlation coefficients of the samples from cities, towns, and rural areas.

^*p< 0.05

and

^** p< 0.01.