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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2010 Jun 16;71(5):891–897. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.06.002

Table 2.

Differences in the Western and Indian scale scores by socio-demographic factors; Delhi, India (n=3512).

Western scale a Indian scale a
Mean (SE) p-value b Mean (SE) p-value b
Grade
 8th grade 16.55 (1.26) 20.84 (0.19)
 10th grade 18.33 (1.26) <0.001 22.88 (0.22) <0.001
School type
 Private 20.82 (1.01) 21.18 (0.24)
 Government 13.56 (1.01) <0.001 22.03 (0.23) 0.011
Age
 <=12 years 16.42 (1.27) 20.94 (0.26)
 13 years 16.81 (1.26) 21.28 (0.19)
 14 years 17.20 (1.25) 21.62 (0.17)
 15 years 17.59 (1.26) 21.97 (0.20)
 >=16 years 17.99 (1.27) <0.001 22.31 (0.27) 0.001
Gender
 Girls 17.25 (1.23) 22.25 (0.26)
 Boys 17.14 (1.22) 0.688 21.16 (0.23) <0.001
a

Models consider the effect of each sociodemographic factor on each dimension of “westernization,” or acculturation, (i.e., Western or Indian), separately.

b

p-value represents differences in each scale score by each sociodemographic factor using an unadjusted random intercept mixed effects regression model.