Table 2.

Hierarchical linear regression model predicting loneliness

	Model 1 (without social network)			Model 2 (with personal social network)			Model 3 (with global social network)
	B	95% CI	p value	B	95% CI	p value	B	95% CI	p value
Age, years	0.00	0.00 to 0.01	0.296	0.00	0.00 to 0.01	0.254	0.00	−0.00 to 0.01	0.547
Sex	−0.09	−0.16 to −0.02	0.012	−0.08	−0.15 to −0.01	0.032	−0.09	−0.16 to −0.02	0.017
Education	−0.06	−0.09 to −0.02	0.002	−0.05	−0.09 to −0.02	0.003	−0.06	−0.09 to −0.02	0.001
Years of residence	0.00	0.00 to 0.00	0.159	0.00	0.00 to 0.00	0.215	0.00	0.00 to 0.00	0.650
Self-rated health	0.16	0.12 to 0.20	<0.001	0.15	0.11 to 0.19	<0.001	0.15	0.11 to 0.19	<0.001
Chronic illness	0.05	0.01 to 0.09	0.019	0.05	0.01 to 0.09	0.023	0.05	0.01 to 0.10	0.013
Marital status	0.18	0.11 to 0.26	<0.001	0.17	0.09 to 0.25	<0.001	0.16	0.08 to 0.24	<0.001
Currently working	0.10	0.03 to 0.18	0.007	0.10	0.02 to 0.17	0.011	0.09	0.02 to 0.16	0.017
Subjective network size				−0.01	−0.02 to 0.00	0.009	−0.01	−0.02 to 0.00	0.028
Average intimacy				−0.03	−0.08 to 0.02	0.195	−0.05	−0.10 to 0.00	0.072
Average communication frequency				−0.04	−0.07 to −0.01	0.008	−0.02	−0.05 to 0.01	0.144
Brokerage (structural constraint)							−0.14	0.02 to 0.27	0.026
Embeddedness (k-core)							−0.02	−0.06 to 0.02	0.261

CI, confidence interval.