Factors Related to Depression and Mental Health That Affect the Quality of Life of the Elderly

Table 9

Factors affecting the quality of life.

Variable	Physical domain		Psychological domain		Social domain		Living environment domain
	β	p	β	p	β	p	β	p
Constant		0.610		0.333		0.478		0.983
Gender	0.089	0.478	0.166	0.123	0.016	0.886	0.104	0.363
Age (year)	−0.064	0.635	0.020	0.865	−0.019	0.875	0.050	0.687
Religion	−0.011	0.911	0.164	0.058	0.065	0.477	0.112	0.222
Education	0.164	0.171	−0.144	0.159	−0.139	0.200	−0.043	0.693
Marital status	−0.167	0.336	0.090	0.545	−0.038	0.811	−0.052	0.741
Living together	0.008	0.961	−0.003	0.985	−0.010	0.947	0.016	0.918
Number of children	0.302	0.010	−0.057	0.568	0.049	0.639	0.031	0.770
Dependent child	0.010	0.919	−0.142	0.099	−0.009	0.919	−0.083	0.366
A person who usually cares and helps	0.028	0.800	−0.180	0.056	0.098	0.322	−0.075	0.453
Meeting	−0.051	0.770	0.015	0.918	0.194	0.223	0.148	0.354
Number of meetings	−0.069	0.693	−0.095	0.523	−0.232	0.143	−0.107	0.501
Occupation status	0.048	0.649	−0.287	0.002	0.109	0.255	−0.041	0.673
Economic level	0.090	0.407	0.024	0.801	−0.288	0.004	−0.027	0.783
Monthly allowance	0.044	0.671	−0.038	0.668	0.092	0.336	−0.171	0.077
Subjective health status	0.071	0.582	−0.018	0.869	0.280	0.018	−0.070	0.555
Disease status	−0.140	0.179	0.016	0.858	0.021	0.822	−0.216	0.025
Depression	0.107	0.318	0.145	0.117	0.121	0.215	−0.049	0.616
Quality of life	−0.015	0.890	−0.348	0.001	0.158	0.102	0.436	0.001