Table 4.

Categories for coding responses in the free recall task, interrater reliability, and proportions of each category by ethnicity and explanation type.

Categories	Examples	Agreement (κ)	European American		Chinese		F	p
			Genetic	Neurobiological	Genetic	Neurobiological
Concern about passing on the illness to future generations	“The mental illness was heritable”	.74***	.13	.13	.18	.09	4.74	.032*
Concern about telling wife about the illness	“He lied to his wife”	-	.15	.10	.07	.09	2.65	.107
Demographic background of the protagonist	“Jung (John) was 30 years old”	.97***	.13	.11	.07	.08	.52	.472
Experiences with the mental illness	“He thought people on TV were sending him messages”	.81***	.36	.37	.33	.40	.63	.430
Importance of marrying a healthy man	“It was important that she marry a healthy man”	-	.04	.02	.03	.05	.15	.233
Other	“She noticed his illness”	.66***	.02	.04	.06	.03	2.10	.151
Relationship between the protagonist and his fiancé	“Jung (John) has a fiancé”	.92***	.14	.15	.18	.08	.01	.933
Scientific background of the illness	“The illness was neurobiological”	.81***	.03	.09	.05	.06	1.08	.302
Uncodable	“Imagine a…” (incomplete sentence)	.80***	.02	.01	.03	.03	.06	.808

Note: The F and p values are measures of the interaction between ethnicity and explanation for illness. Dashes in the “agreement” column indicate that Kappa was unable to be computed because the table of values computed was asymmetric. Numbers below “European American” and “Chinese” are proportion of recalled statements by statement category.

^*p < .05

^***p < .001