Table 1.
Group Meansd of Analysis Variables (Adjusted for Nonprobability Sampling), by Latino Subgroup and Gender
| Variable | Range | Mexican Girls (n = 1,552) | Mexican Boys (n = 1,459) | Puerto Rican Girls (n = 426) | Puerto Rican Boys (n = 405) | Cuban Girls (n = 411) | Cuban Boys (n = 389) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | M | M | M | M | M | ||
| Grade in school | 7–12 | 9.61a | 9.62a | 9.84a | 9.86a | 9.67a | 9.95a |
| Nonsport activitiese | 0–1 | 0.55b | 0.39a | 0.64b | 0.41a,b | 0.59b | 0.46a,b |
| Social desirabilitye | 0–1 | 0.16a,b,c | 0.21b,c | 0.10a | 0.14a,b | 0.16a,b,c | 0.28c |
| Mother’s educatione | 0–1 | 0.17a | 0.18a,b | 0.31c | 0.26a,b,c | 0.30b,c | 0.28a,b,c |
| Two-parent familye | 0–1 | 0.71a | 0.68a | 0.64a | 0.59a | 0.68a | 0.67a |
| Academic success | 1–4 | 2.92a | 2.83a | 2.82a | 2.76a | 2.79a | 2.68a |
| Parents born in United Statese | 0–1 | 0.51b | 0.54b | 0.55b | 0.57b | 0.09a | 0.10a |
| First generatione | 0–1 | 0.33a,b | 0.28a | 0.31a,b | 0.31a,b | 0.54b | 0.45b |
| Latino teacherse | 0–1 | 0.20a | 0.24a | 0.09a | 0.06a | 0.91b | 0.83b |
| Sports participatione | 0–1 | 0.48b | 0.61c | 0.49b,c | 0.65c | 0.25a | 0.45b |
| School attachment | 1–5 | 3.42b | 3.43b | 3.18a | 3.40a,b | 3.43b | 3.48b |
| Physical well-being | 2.5f–5 | 3.64a | 3.90b | 3.62a | 4.03b | 3.70a | 3.93b |
| Self-esteem | 2.5f–5 | 3.77a,b | 3.98c | 3.74a | 3.97b,c | 3.88a,b,c | 4.02c |
NOTE: Means for the Mexican subgroups do not represent Mexicans from the Northeast and underrepresent Mexicans from the Midwest. Means for the Cuban subgroups represent only Cubans from the South.
Means with the same subscript are not significantly different.
These values represent the proportion of respondents endorsing the selected category in a dichotomous variable. For this study, these selected categories include respondents’ reports of involvement in a nonsport extracurricular activity, never having lied to their parents in the past year, mother’s education or training beyond high school, both adolescent and parent born in the United States, adolescent born in the United States but parent born abroad, attending a school where more than 5% of the full-time classroom teachers are of Latino or Spanish origin, and current or anticipated participation in at least one active sport.
These variables have been truncated to reduce the effect of outliers in the distribution.