Impact of parents’ need for care on middle-aged women’s lifestyle and psychological distress: evidence from a nationwide longitudinal survey in Japan

Table 5 Estimated impact of the occurrence of parents’ need for care on women’s K6 scores mediated by their behavior^a

	Coefficient	95% CI^b	Proportion (%)	95% CI^b
Parents (n = 15,972)
Mediated by:
Caregiving	0.139	(0.058, 0.217)	37.7	(15.6, 68.2)
Coresidence	0.001	(−0.004, 0.006)	0.3	(−1.0, 1.8)
Work	0.001	(−0.001, 0.003)	0.2	(−0.4, 0.9)
Total	0.140	(0.061, 0.219)	38.1	(16.1, 68.5)
Unmediated	0.228	(0.088, 0.368)	61.9	(31.5, 83.9)
Total	0.368	(0.249, 0.487)	100.0
Parents-in-law (n = 10,887)
Mediated by:
Caregiving	0.162	(0.085, 0.239)	44.0	(22.2, 75.4)
Coresidence	0.001	(−0.002, 0.004)	0.1	(−0.4, 1.0)
Work	0.005	(−0.000, 0.011)	1.0	(−0.1, 2.5)
Total	0.210	(0.113, 0.309)	45.1	(23.1, 76.7)
Unmediated	0.255	(0.085, 0.428)	54.9	(23.3, 76.9)
Total	0.465	(0.323, 0.608)	100.0

^aAdjusted for age, educational attainment, having a spouse, household expenditure, coresidence, and work in the previous year in all models
^bBootstrap-estimated with 3000 replications

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