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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Anxiety Disord. 2010 Oct 30;25(2):258–265. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.09.011

Table 3.

Sample Characteristic and experiences of discrimination stratified by ethnicity

African Americans Afro Caribbeans Non-Hispanic Whites

% (SE) % (SE) % (SE) χ2

Discrimination
    Race Based 40.62 (1.17) 38.71 (3.32) 7.79 (1.07) 861.57*
    Non-Race Based 34.26 (1.14) 31.44 (1.10) 49.26 (2.43) 30.16*
Endorsed GAD
(Lifetime)
4.46 (.46) 2.69 (0.88) 7.37 (1.56) 24.46*
Gender
    Female 55.97 (.83) 49.47(3.21) 52.74 (.19) 13.87*
M (SE) M (SE) M (SE) F

Frequency of
Discrimination
    Race Based 1.59 (0.08) 1.77 (0.27) 0.22 (0.06) 97.36*
    Non-Race Based 0.86(0.04) 0.89 (0.11) 1.55 (0.09) 70.13*
Age 42.32 (.52) 40.95 (.95) 44.98 (1.35) 45.22*
Poverty Index 2.64 (.09) 3.30 (.15) 3.70 (0.23) 90.53*
*

p<.01 Chi-square values represent Rao-Scott Chi-Square values and account for the stratification, clustering, and weighting of the data. All individual group means for age and poverty are significantly different from each other.