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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 3.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2012 Nov;23(4):1719–1732. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2012.0168

Table 2.

COMPARISON OF PSYCHOLOGICAL OUTCOMES BY IMMIGRANT STATUS, UNADJUSTEDa,b

Psychological outcome for group Foreign-born U.S.-born p-value
Latinos overall n=983 n=446
 CES-D score, # >16 (%) 231 (23.5) 71 (14.9) .001
 Spielberger Trait Anxiety Scale, mean (SD) 16.33 (4.90) 15.84 (4.60) .07
 Spielberger Trait Anger Scale, mean (SD) 15.35 (4.86) 14.37 (3.69) <.001
Mexicans n=380 n=387
 CES-D score, # >16 (%) 84 (22.1) 57 (14.7) .008
 Spielberger Trait Anxiety Scale, mean (SD) 16.36 (4.78) 15.73 (4.60) .07
 Spielberger Trait Anger Scale, mean (SD) 15.25 (4.58) 14.18 (3.53) <.001
Other-Latinos n=603 n=59
 CES-D score, # >16 (%) 147 (24.3) 14 (23.7) .92
 Spielberger Trait Anxiety Scale, mean (SD) 16.32 (4.97) 16.56 (4.60) .70
 Spielberger Trait Anger Scale, mean (SD) 15.42 (4.43) 15.63 (4.48) .73
a

Test statistic for CES-D>16 outcomes: Chi-square

b

Test statistic for Spielberger outcomes: Student’s t-test

CES-D = Center for Epidemiology Studies Depression Score