. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Immigr Minor Health. 2014 Dec;16(6):1035–1044. doi: 10.1007/s10903-013-9953-y

Table 1.

Characteristics of First Generation Mandarin Speaking Chinese Immigrants in Greater Los Angeles, California, 2010–2011.^a

Predictor	Mean/%	SD	N	Bivariate r^b
CES-D	6.00	3.81	1131
Health status	2.40	0.59	1130	^***−0.24
Immigrant Stress	−0.39	3.95	1131	^***0.43
Acculturation	2.29	0.50	1131	^**−0.10
Age	43.88	14.04	1132	−0.04
Family income	$26,649	$24,375	946	^***−0.06
Time in U.S.	15.60	10.18	1132	^***−0.10
Social Support	1.73	0.96	1117	^**−.09
Total Years of education	15.27	3.21	1125	^***−.10
American citizen	66.7%		1115	^***−.11

Numbers in cells are means, standard deviations, or percentages and numbers of cases among first generation Chinese immigrants. Acculturation was transformed to constrain skewness using a natural logarithm. The total N interviewed was 1199 and the above N’s vary due to missing data being deleted.

Bivariate product moment correlations between depressive symptoms and predictors with

^***

P<.001,

^**

P<.011, and

P<.050.

Remaining correlations P>.050