Pathways of Media Contact to Health Literacy in Middle-Aged and Older People: The Chain Mediation Effect of Perceived Social Support and Self-Efficacy

Figures & data

Figure 1 Hypothesized model of the research framework.

Abbreviations: MC, media contact; PS, perceived social support; SE, self-efficacy; HL, health literacy.

Table 1 Descriptive Statistics and Correlation Analysis Results

Variable	Media Contact	Perceived Social Support	Self-Efficacy	Health Literacy
Media contact	1
Perceived social support	0.227 ***	1
Self-efficacy	0.328 ***	0.588 ***	1
Health literacy	0.392 ***	0.410 ***	0.482 ***	1 ***
Mean	18.55	60.68	28.76	35.49
SD	5.36	12.51	5.40	6.05

Notes: *** p < 0.001. SD is the standard error.

Table 2 The Direct and Indirect Effects of Media Contact on the Health Literacy of Middle-Aged and Elderly People

	Point Estimate	Product of Coefficients			BOOTSTRAP1000 TIMES 95% CI
	Estimate	S.E.	Est./S.E.	p-value	Percentile		Bias Corrected
					Lower	Upper	Lower	Upper
Middle-Aged
PS	0.016	0.004	4.330	<0.001	0.010	0.024	0.010	0.024
NG	0.014	0.004	3.946	<0.001	0.007	0.022	0.008	0.022
PS→NG	0.015	0.003	4.715	<0.001	0.009	0.022	0.009	0.022
TIE	0.046	0.007	6.244	<0.001	0.031	0.060	0.031	0.059
TE	0.110	0.014	7.917	<0.001	0.083	0.137	0.083	0.137
DE	0.064	0.011	6.118	<0.001	0.044	0.085	0.044	0.085
Elderly
PS	0.009	0.004	2.292	0.022	0.002	0.018	0.003	0.019
NG	0.036	0.008	4.696	<0.001	0.022	0.051	0.023	0.052
PS→NG	0.007	0.003	2.679	0.007	0.002	0.013	0.003	0.013
TIE	0.052	0.009	5.693	<0.001	0.033	0.069	0.036	0.072
TE	0.202	0.020	9.963	<0.001	0.163	0.242	0.162	0.242
DE	0.151	0.019	7.980	<0.001	0.113	0.189	0.112	0.187
Total
PS	0.013	0.003	5.005	<0.001	0.008	0.018	0.009	0.019
NG	0.029	0.004	7.531	<0.001	0.022	0.037	0.022	0.038
PS→NG	0.015	0.003	5.685	<0.001	0.010	0.020	0.010	0.020
TIE	0.057	0.006	9.492	<0.001	0.046	0.069	0.046	0.069
TE	0.148	0.013	11.750	<0.001	0.124	0.173	0.123	0.172
DE	0.091	0.010	8.692	<0.001	0.072	0.113	0.072	0.112

Abbreviations: TIE, total indirect effect; TE, total effect; DE, direct effect.

Figure 2 The path of media contact’s impact on the health literacy of middle-aged and elderly people. ***: p < 0.001, a: middle-aged people, b: elder.

Abbreviations: MC, media contact; PS, perceived social support; SE, self-efficacy; HL, health literacy.