Table 1.
Study demographic characteristics by acculturation typology
| Demographics | Acculturation typology |
Overall | p Value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marginalized | Separated | Assimilated | Integrated | |||
| (n = 6) | (n = 9) | (n = 108) | (n = 112) | |||
| Age (Mean, SD) | 15.0 (0.6) | 14.8 (1.6) | 14.7 (1.4) | 14.7 (1.4) | 14.7 (1.4) | 0.927 |
| Gender (n, % of male) | 6 (100.0) | 7 (77.8) | 72 (66.7) | 67 (59.8) | 152 (64.7) | < 0.001a |
| Grade (Mean, SD) | 8.3 (1.5) | 10.0 (1.4) | 8.5 (1.3) | 8.3 (1.6) | 8.4 (1.6) | 0.465 |
| Foreign-born (n, %) | 0 (0.0) | 7 (77.8) | 29 (26.9) | 48 (42.9) | 84 (35.7) | < 0.001a |
| Country of origin among foreign-born (n, %) | < 0.001a | |||||
| Cuba | – | 3 (42.9) | 8 (27.6) | 10 (20.8) | 21 (25.0) | |
| Nicaragua | – | 0 (0.0) | 5 (17.2) | 3 (6.3) | 8 (9.5) | |
| Honduras | – | 2 (28.6) | 2 (6.9) | 9 (18.8) | 13 (15.5) | |
| Puerto Rico | – | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 7 (14.6) | 7 (8.3) | |
| Other countries | – | 2 (28.6) | 14 (48.3) | 19 (39.6) | 35 (41.7) | |
| Income (n, %) | 0.009a | |||||
| ≤20,000 | 4 (66.7) | 6 (66.7) | 64 (59.3) | 68 (60.7) | 142 (60.4) | |
| >20,000 | 2 (33.3) | 3 (33.3) | 41 (40.7) | 44 (39.3) | 93 (39.6) | |
| Parental involvement (Mean, SD) | 36.3 (4.2) | 33.2 (6.3) | 32.0 (7.1) | 34.7 (6.3) | 33.4 (6.8) | 0.027 |
| Family cohesion (Mean, SD) | 13.7 (2.5) | 17.4 (3.1) | 15.6 (3.7) | 17.0 (3.6) | 16.3 (3.7) | 0.006 |
| Parent-adolescent communication (Mean, SD) | 6.7 (2.3) | 9.0 (1.5) | 7.5 (2.1) | 8.0 (2.2) | 7.8 (2.2) | 0.071 |
a
Fisher’s exact p value was reported because of small sample size in cells