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Table 5 High-intensity caregiving functions (continuation of Table 2)

From: Distinct impacts of high intensity caregiving on caregivers’ mental health and continuation of caregiving

Independent variables

Non-working

Irregular employees

Regular employees

Age and Marital status

Age

0.0187

0.0269**

−0.006

(0.0129)

(0.0126)

(0.0169)

Married

−0.349***

0.0361

−0.0957

(0.101)

(0.104)

(0.148)

Educational attainment

Junior high school

−0.00893

−0.101

0.0893

(0.106)

(0.108)

(0.151)

Vocational school

−0.0298

0.190*

−0.0753

(0.111)

(0.114)

(0.150)

Junior college or technical college

0.121

0.0536

−0.120

(0.0921)

(0.107)

(0.156)

University

−0.0657

−0.0973

−0.157

(0.106)

(0.0986)

(0.105)

Graduate school

−0.145

0.000837

0.284

(0.513)

(0.388)

(0.302)

Residence

Rental housing

0.0491

0.227*

0.197

(0.137)

(0.121)

(0.163)

Company residence

−0.371

0.560

0.254

(0.522)

(0.425)

(0.450)

Other residences

−0.169

0.357

0.510

(0.263)

(0.225)

(0.335)

Health status and Medical care use

Diabetes

−0.0372

−0.151

−0.0755

(0.122)

(0.125)

(0.148)

Heart disease

0.0851

0.0306

0.320*

(0.166)

(0.167)

(0.187)

Cerebral stroke

0.0890

0.203

−0.681

(0.222)

(0.259)

(0.545)

Cancer

−0.0948

−0.00433

0.435

(0.212)

(0.238)

(0.300)

Having friend/acquaintances

−0.0823

0.0586

0.121

(0.0867)

(0.103)

(0.122)

  1. Divorced or widowed was dropped because of collinearity
  2. Standard errors in parentheses. *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1