Table 4.

Weighted linear regression analyses for measures of psychological well-being and psychological distress for older Black Caribbeans.¹

	Life Satisfaction		Happiness		Self-Rated Mental Health		Depressive Symptoms (CES-D)		Serious Psychological Distress (K6)
	B	S. E.	B	S. E.	B	S. E.	B	S. E.	B	S. E.
Age	−.00	.01	−.00	.01	−.03	.02	.02	.08	−.01	.04
Gender: Female	.12	.14	.55**	.17	−.04	.26	−1.35	1.18	−.43	.76
Income	−.00	.01	.02	.02	−.03	.02	.11	.10	−.01	.04
Education	.00	.02	−.00	.02	.14*	.05	−.44*	.21	−.18	.11
Marital Status
Divorced	−.27	.20	−.40	.22	.11	.28	1.18	1.63	1.51	.85
Widowed	.07	.16	.01	.29	.67	.38	.72	1.53	−.04	.93
Separated	−.63**	.19	−.52*	.25	−.15	.28	5.95*	2.49	1.49	.75
Never Married	−.31	.22	−.44*	.20	−.14	.35	1.26	1.54	1.48	1.34
Immigration Status
<25 Yrs	−.04	.24	.46**	.16	.79*	.38	−1.65	1.54	−.51	.60
26–35 Yrs	−.03	.21	.57**	.17	.50	.32	−1.16	1.29	−.27	.61
36+ Yrs	−.24	.21	.32	.19	.39	.28	−.93	1.09	−.08	.60
Country of Origin
Spanish	.31*	.15	.74***	.20	.54	.31	.29	1.15	.28	.88
Haiti	−.20	.33	.42	.41	.31	.31	3.51	3.17	1.65	1.64
Other English	−.02	.10	.39***	.10	−.20	.19	.70	.82	.79	.74
Constant	3.80***	.74	2.34***	.67	3.70**	1.09	9.18	6.57	5.33*	2.50
N	299		298		291		291		291
F
R2	.11		.23		.19		.16		.10

¹Several predictors are represented by dummy variables: Gender: female = 1, marital status: married = 0, Immigration status: born in the United States is the excluded category, and country of origin: Jamaica is the excluded category. Income is coded in dollars and has been divided by 5,000 in order to increase effect sizes and provide a better understanding of the net impact of income. All of the coefficients are unstandardized.

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .001