Are There Differences in the Health Outcomes of Mothers in Europe and East-Asia? A Cross-Cultural Health Survey

Table 4

Demographic and psychological impact factors on depression and quality of life.

Explanatory variables	Criterion variables
	Depression		Physical QOL		Psychological QOL		Social QOL		Environmental QOL
	Austrian	Japanese	Austrian	Japanese	Austrian	Japanese	Austrian	Japanese	Austrian	Japanese
Age				−0.144
Number of children
Importance of a child
Difficulty of childrearing
Satisfaction with income			0.117		0.213				0.397	0.294
Stress	0.154	0.244	−0.217	−0.262		−0.211
Sense of coherence	−0.582	−0.333	0.373	0.258	0.599	0.429	0.242	0.255	0.283	0.253
Social support of family		−0.166		0.289	0.120	0.310	0.226
Social support of friends							0.282	0.403	0.182
Social support of important others										0.275
Support from partner							0.254	0.204
Mother’s role								−0.197
Father’s role								−0.164
Women’s role									−0.120
Men’s role
General role
Adjusted -square	0.422	0.342	0.272	0.423	0.529	0.577	0.427	0.506	0.374	0.347
	80.19	29.22	27.99	30.93	82.29	74.58	41.18	34.45	33.43	29.90
df (reg), df (err)	2, 215	3, 160	3, 214	4, 159	3, 214	3, 159	4, 212	5, 158	4, 213	3, 160