Xiong Xinyan, Hu Rita Xiaochen, Ning Wenyuan
School of Sociology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.
Front Public Health. 2024 Dec 4;12:1480050. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1480050. eCollection 2024.
Education holds significant implications for individual health. This work aims to examine the relationship between educational attainment, lifestyle, self-rated health, and depressive symptoms among Chinese adults. We used China Family Panel Studies data from 2012 to 2020. Multiple linear regression models were used to explore the relationship between educational attainment and self-rated health and depressive symptoms, where multidimensional lifestyle (sleep time, exercise time, overtime time, leisure time, housework time, and protein intake) was the mediator variable of the above relationship, and the causal step method was used to test the mediating effect. Our findings show that educational attainment is associated with higher levels of self-rated health and lower levels of depressive symptoms. More importantly, educational attainment also indirectly affects individuals' self-rated health and depressive symptoms through lifestyle. These findings reveal health interventions to develop education further and improve its quality.
教育对个人健康具有重要影响。这项研究旨在探讨中国成年人的教育程度、生活方式、自评健康状况和抑郁症状之间的关系。我们使用了2012年至2020年的中国家庭追踪调查数据。采用多元线性回归模型来探究教育程度与自评健康状况及抑郁症状之间的关系,其中多维生活方式(睡眠时间、锻炼时间、加班时间、休闲时间、家务时间和蛋白质摄入量)是上述关系的中介变量,并采用因果逐步法来检验中介效应。我们的研究结果表明,教育程度与较高的自评健康水平和较低的抑郁症状水平相关。更重要的是,教育程度还通过生活方式间接影响个体的自评健康状况和抑郁症状。这些研究结果揭示了进一步发展教育并提高其质量的健康干预措施。