Table 3.
Response to Unfair Treatment, by Sociodemographic and Health Status Characteristics
| A: Prevalence of Response to Unfair Treatment | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| If you feel you have been treated unfairly, do you usually: | Response | N (%) | |||
| Try to do something about it | 768 (25.7) | ||||
| Accept it as a fact of life | 2,223 (74.3) | ||||
| If you have been treated unfairly, do you usually: | Talk to other people about it | 1,486 (49.5) | |||
| Keep it to yourself | 1,514 (50.5) | ||||
| B: Characteristics of Study Population by Response to Unfair Treatment | |||||
| Mean (SD) | Passive, N (%) N = 1,454 (48.2) | Moderate, N (%), N = 870 (28.8) | Engaged, N (%) N = 692(22.9) | F value | p |
| Age | 73.3 (8.3) | 72.2 (8.1) | 71.4 (7.8) | 13.7 | <.001 |
| Years of education | 8.2 (5.1) | 8.7 (4.9) | 10.1 (4.8) | 34.9 | <.001 |
| Level of income | 1.9 (1.1) | 1.9 (1.0) | 2.1 (1.5) | 10.8 | .005 |
| Number of children | 2.9 (1.5) | 2.9 (1.4) | 2.7 (1.5) | 9.5 | .009 |
| Number of people in household | 1.8 (1.9) | 2.0 (1.9) | 1.9 (1.9) | 4.8 | .10 |
| Years in the United States | 19.3 (12.8) | 19.5 (12.2) | 21.7 (14.3) | 12.6 | .002 |
| Years in the community | 12.1 (11.0) | 11.4 (10.4) | 13.0 (12.0) | 3.6 | .16 |
| General health status | 2.2 (0.8) | 2.2 (0.7) | 2.3 (0.8) | 3.9 | .02 |
| Quality of life | 2.6 (0.7) | 2.4 (0.7) | 2.6 (0.7) | 13.9 | <.001 |
| Health changes | 2.6 (0.8) | 2.6 (0.7) | 2.7 (0.8) | 3.7 | .03 |