Table 4.
Categories | Examples | Agreement (κ) | European American | Chinese | F | p | ||
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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