Table 2.

Multiple linear regression on relationship between childhood left-behind experience (LBE) and quality of life (QOL) among freshmen, adjusting for the confounding effects of sociodemographic variables, physical health, depressive symptoms, and academic stress.

Characteristics		Unstandardized coefficient	Standard error	t	p
Childhood LBE	Yes vs. no	−3.022	0.356	8.490	<0.001
Place of origin	Rural vs. urban	−1.362	0.344	−3.958	<0.001
Site	Fuzhou vs. Wuhan	−0.306	0.320	−0.955	0.340
Sex	Female vs. male	0.410	0.341	1.202	0.229
Age (years)	≥18 vs. <18	−0.464	0.719	−0.645	0.519
The only child	No vs. yes	−1.074	0.359	−2.992	0.003
Ethnic group	Minorities vs. Han	0.059	0.640	0.093	0.926
Academic major	Science vs. liberal arts	0.822	0.360	2.287	0.022
Marital status of parents	Others* vs. married	−1.295	0.398	−3.254	0.001
Two-week morbidity	No vs. yes	−3.607	0.375	−9.625	<0.001
Depressive symptoms	No vs. yes	−7.031	0.361	−19.492	<0.001
Academic stress	Not high vs. high	−3.679	0.360	−10.214	<0.001

^*Others included never-married, remarried, cohabiting, separated, divorced, and widowed.