Family Structure, Social Capital, Neighbourhoods Environment and Health Behaviors for the Rural and Urban Chinese

Objectives: Improving health behavior like mental health is much needed for healthy aging and is commonly required among all age groups and family members. Such prolific results are reasonably possible by investigating the functional and effective role of the family structure, neighboring environment, and social Capital. However, limited research studies in the Chinese regional setting on the stated domain of interest were found while completely missing the role of life satisfaction as a mediating variable between Family structure, social Capital, neighborhood health, and mental health. Methods: Addressing such literature backdrop is the key concern of the present research for which primary data was focused using different methodological approaches. Results: The outcomes demonstrate that family structure, social Capital, and two components of the neighborhood environment, like natural and social environment, positively related to the mental health of the urban and rural Chinese coming from age groups 20 to above 50 years. Conclusion: The partial mediating effect of life satisfaction is between the family structure, mental health, and the social environment and mental health.