Figure 1

Multiple mediation model. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001. The figure presents the analysis testing the mediating effect of education, depressive symptoms, and the “physical state” latent factor on the association between childhood socioeconomic position and the level of cognitive performance controlled for age across sex. Standardized coefficients are presented on their respective arrows. Men’s and women’s coefficients are on the left and right position of the slash, respectively. All the paths are significant at p < 0.001. The paths significantly different between men and women are marked with respective asterisks. The whole mediation model explained 34.6% and 40.1% of men’s and women’s variance in cognition, respectively. The model accounted for data variance’s 14.9% and 16.6% in years of education in men and women, respectively. Depressive symptoms were explained up to 1.7% and 3.6% in men and women, respectively.