Relationships between Pathological Patterns and Quality of Life: Pathway Analysis

Table 3

Results of path analysis.

Regression weight or correlation	Pathological pattern or QoL	SMC	Standardized estimate	Estimate	S.E.	C.R.	𝑃 value
Regression weight	Yin Deficiency → Food Stagnation	0.555	0.230	0.266	0.049	5.457	<0.001
	Qi Deficiency → Food Stagnation		0.576	0.436	0.032	13.668	<0.001
	Food Stagnation → Blood Stasis	0.667	0.507	0.449	0.036	12.500	<0.001
	Qi Deficiency → Blood Stasis		0.372	0.250	0.027	9.173	<0.001
	Food Stagnation → Phlegm	0.775	0.129	0.135	0.042	3.236	0.001
	Blood Stasis → Phlegm		0.481	0.564	0.047	12.037	<0.001
	Yin Deficiency → Phlegm		0.253	0.305	0.037	8.145	<0.001
	Qi Deficiency → Phlegm		0.143	0.113	0.031	3.682	<0.001
	Yin Deficiency → Seven Emotions Impairment	0.726	0.121	0.174	0.053	3.284	0.001
	Food Stagnation → Seven Emotions Impairment		0.052	0.065	0.055	1.168	0.243
	Qi Deficiency → Seven Emotions Impairment		0.382	0.359	0.041	8.762	<0.001
	Blood Stasis → Seven Emotions Impairment		0.239	0.335	0.071	4.692	<0.001
	Phlegm → Seven Emotions Impairment		0.163	0.195	0.064	3.052	0.002
	Seven Emotions Impairment → quality of life	0.437	0.444	1.739	0.273	6.379	<0.001
	Qi Deficiency → quality of life		0.019	0.072	0.250	0.287	0.774
	Blood Stasis → quality of life		−0.089	−0.489	0.411	−1.190	0.234
	Food Stagnation → quality of life		−0.088	−0.430	0.312	−1.379	0.168
	Yin Deficiency → quality of life		0.050	0.281	0.301	0.935	0.350
	Phlegm → quality of life		0.350	1.637	0.362	4.521	<0.001
Correlation	Yin Deficiency ↔ Qi Deficiency		0.641	0.511	0.046	11.122	<0.001

SMC: squared multiple correlations, S.E: standard error, C.R.: critical ratio.