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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Health. 2011 Nov;59(8):715–720. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2010.529625

TABLE 1.

CES-D Scale Scores and Cutoffs by Gender, Ethnoracial Group, Family Income, and Marital Status (N = 589)

CES-D Scale Scores M(SD)
% Above CES-D Total Scale Cutoffs
Variable N Total NA LPA S I % >= 16 % >= 28
All participants 589 14.58 (9.37) .22 (.22) .28 (.23) .29 (.18) .16 (.20) 38.5 10.4
Gender
Female 395 15.41* (9.69) .25* (.23) .28 (.23) .31* (.19) .16 (.21) 41.3 12.9
Male 193 12.89* (8.48) .18* (.19) .28 (.25) .25* (.17) .16 (.20) 33.2 5.2
Ethnoracial group
Japanese 93 13.01 (7.75) .16 (.19) .31 (.24) .25 (.16) .13 (.18) 28.0 7.5
Filipino 65 16.51 (10.96) .27 (.26) .29 (.22) .35 (.18) .15 (.20) 41.5 16.9
Other Asian 69 14.58 (9.55) .22 (.22) .33 (.26) .27 (.17) .17 (.22) 39.1 11.6
Native Hawaiian 106 14.12 (9.06) .21 (.22) .27 (.23) .30 (.19) .13 (.20) 39.6 7.5
Other Pacific Islander 38 16.84 (10.12) .25 (.23) .31 (.22) .34 (.22) .18 (.22) 50.0 10.5
European American 169 15.09 (9.70) .25 (.23) .26 (.24) .30 (.19) .20 (.21) 43.8 11.2
Other 42 12.26 (8.02) .19 (.18) .21 (.21) .27 (.19) .12 (.21) 26.2 7.1

Note. Total = CES-D Total (0-60), NA = Negative Affect (0-1), LPA = Low Positive Affect (0-1), S = Somatic (0-1), I = Interpersonal (0-1).

*

p < .001 for ANOVA or chi-square.