Table 3.

Multiple linear regression on interactive effect of childhood left-behind experience (LBE) and place of origin on 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 × place of origin		−2.413	0.750	−3.218	0.001
Childhood LBE	Yes vs. No	−4.644	0.618	7.529	<0.001
Place of origin	Rural vs. Urban	0.412	0.651	0.638	0.522
Site	Fuzhou vs. Wuhan	−0.308	0.320	−0.964	0.335
Sex	Female vs. male	0.397	0.341	1.165	0.244
Age (years)	≥18 vs. <18	−0.418	0.719	−0.581	0.561
The only child	No vs. yes	−1.012	0.359	−2.818	0.005
Ethnic group	Minorities vs. Han	0.049	0.639	0.077	0.939
Academic major	Science vs. liberal arts	0.833	0.359	2.319	0.020
Marital status of parents	Others* vs. married	−1.287	0.398	−3.238	0.001
Two-week morbidity	Yes vs. no	−3.588	0.374	−9.582	<0.001
Depressive symptoms	Yes vs. no	−7.026	0.360	−19.495	<0.001
Academic stress	High vs. not high	−3.663	0.360	−10.179	<0.001

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