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Fig. 4 | BMC Psychiatry

Fig. 4

From: Quality of life and care burden among family caregivers of people with severe mental illness: mediating effects of self-esteem and psychological distress

Fig. 4

Results of sequential mediation model describing the mediator roles of self-esteem and depression in the association between care burden and quality of life

Note: Mediated effects of the level of quality of life (comprising four domains: physical health, psychological health, social relationships, environment) on the associations between care burden, self-esteem, and anxiety. All the models used 5,000 bootstrapping resamples and controlled for diagnosis of people with mental illness (PWMI), psychiatric hospitalization, age of PWMI and caregiver, gender of PWMI and caregiver, and education years of PWMI and caregiver. All coefficients and effects are unstandardized coefficients/effects. All path coefficients were significant

Abbreviations: PHY = physical health; PSY = psychological health; SR = social relationships; ENV = environment.

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001

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BMC Psychiatry

ISSN: 1471-244X

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