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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 23.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2008 Jan 11;66(5):1152–1164. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.11.028

Table 2.

The effects of subjective social status on mood dysfunction using survey logistic regression (N = 1451)

Variables Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4 Model 5 Model 6
Subjective social status
 (subjective social status)
−0.13* −0.17** −0.15** −0.16** 0.38 −0.31***
Education
 0–11 years −0.41 −0.34 −0.46 −0.59 −0.54
 12 years −0.20 −0.18 −0.30 −0.24 −0.26
 13–15 years −0.05 −0.08 −0.17 −0.12 −0.15
 16 or more years
Household income
 Less than $17,000 0.27 0.01 0.08 0.00 0.03
 $17,000–$44,999 −0.56 −0.71* −0.69* −0.71* −0.65*
 $45,000–$79,999 0.18 0.21 0.22 0.17 0.21
 $80,000 or more
Family size −0.18* −0.15 −0.14 −0.12 −0.13
Married −0.77** −0.69* −0.72* −0.73*
Age (in 10-year increments) −0.08 0.02 0.63 0.01
Male −0.32 −0.32 −0.30 −0.32
Ethnicity
 Vietnamese −0.03 −0.05 −0.12 −0.06
 Filipino −0.16 −0.14 −0.07 −0.07
 Chinese
 Other Asian 0.22 0.18 0.21 0.23
Non-citizen −0.05 0.15 0.10 0.18
English language proficiency −0.04 −0.07 −0.08 −0.07
Age at immigration < 25 0.68* 0.68* −1.22
Interactions
 Age × subjective social status −0.12*
 Age at immigration < 25 × subjective social status 0.34*
Intercept −1.37*** −0.59 0.70 0.08 −2.72 0.84
*

0.01 < p ≤ 0.05

**

0.001 < p ≤ 0.01

***

p ≤ 0.001.