The effects of social integration and hometown identity on the life satisfaction of Chinese rural migrants: the mediating and moderating effects of a sense of belonging in the host city

Table 3 The effect of social integration on hometown identity (n = 15,990)

Variable	Hometown identity		Life satisfaction
Variable	B	Standard error	B	Standard error
(Log) social integration	0.3363***	0.0107	0.2528***	0.0198
(Log) hometown identity			0.0436***	0.0141
Control variables
Age	−0.0018***	0.0002	0.0031***	0.0003
Gender (ref: male)	0.0026	0.0030	0.0245***	0.0053
Self-rated physical health	−0.0131***	0.0015	0.0579***	0.0027
(Log) total household monthly income	−0.0007	0.0027	0.0725***	0.0048
Homeowner (ref: no)	0.0429***	0.0053	0.0650***	0.0094
Occupation (ref: service or manufacturing)
Administration, management, professional, or technician	0.0082	0.0057	−0.0021	0.0102
Civil service, clerical, or self-employed	0.0060	0.0042	0.0256***	0.0074
Unemployed	−0.0194***	0.0063	−0.0268**	0.0112
Education (ref: junior high school or less)
Senior high school	0.0251***	0.0035	−0.0160**	0.0063
College or more	0.0468***	0.0045	−0.0348***	0.0081
Length of residence	0.0003	0.0004	0.0003	0.0006
Hours per day working during the past month	−0.0005	0.0007	−0.0057***	0.0012
Constant	2.0747***	0.0440	1.1114***	0.0840
R²	0.087		0.084
Adj. R²	0.086		0.083
Log likelihood	4677.6046		− 4610.3117

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