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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int Migr Rev. 2013 Dec;47(4):10.1111/imre.12050. doi: 10.1111/imre.12050

Table 3.

Adjusted Associations with Any Traumatic Experience (Logits)

Adolescents
Parents
OR [95% CI] OR [95% CI]
Pre-Migration Experience
 Lived in extreme poverty 4.36 (1.30 14.57)** 1.55 (0.25 9.44)
 Previous travel to US 0.49 (0.15 1.65) 0.80 (0.31 2.06)
 Parent(s) and child separated at least 1 yr 0.45 (0.20 1.03)* - - -
Migration Experience
 Child aged 6 or less when moved to US 3.79 (1.00 14.32)** - - -
 Entered US without authorization 1.12 (0.38 3.31) 3.12 (1.22 8.00)**
 Migrated with a family member 0.93 (0.28 3.13) 0.57 (0.24 1.33)
Post-Migration Acculturation
 Years in the U.S. (range: 0–17) 0.77 (0.65 0.91)*** 1.11 (1.02 1.21)**
 Psychological acculturation (range:1–5) 0.47 (0.27 0.81)*** 1.23 (0.61 2.49)
 Primarily utilizes Spanish 0.56 (0.20 1.56) 2.11 (0.86 5.18)
Post-Migration Social Environment
 Ever experienced discrimination - - - 4.05 (1.65 9.92)***
 Neighborhood unsafe - - - 2.36 (1.00 5.59)*
 Parent social support (range: 0 – 36) - - - 0.94 (0.89 0.99)**
 Parent living with partner - - - 0.36 (0.14 0.93)**
 Familism (range: 1–5) - - - 1.00 (0.48 2.11)
Demographic Characteristics
 Female 1.04 (0.46 2.34) 3.09 (1.05 9.15)**
 Age 1.23 (0.96 1.58) 0.99 (0.94 1.05)
 Parent(s) completed high school 0.83 (0.34 2.04) 1.26 (0.54 2.96)
 Constant 0.46 (0.01 31.18) 0.18 (0.00 14.41)
Model Statistics
N 269 259
F 2.22 2.18
*

p<.10,

**

p<.05,

***

p<.01

Note: Data are weighted. Standard errors are adjusted for clustering and stratification of sample.