Table 1.
Sample characteristics, means and standard deviations for overall sample and by coping group.
| Total N=743 |
Coping Group 1 89 (12%) |
Coping Group 2 52 (7%) |
Coping Group 3 163 (22%) |
Coping Group 4 439 (59%) |
t /F/ χ2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | 22.66* | |||||
| Male | 260 (35%) | 48 (54%) | 27 (51%) | 51 (31%) | 138 (31%) | |
| Female | 483 (65%) | 41 (46%) | 25 (49%) | 112 (69%) | 301 (69%) | |
| Immigration status | 3.69 | |||||
| U.S.-born | 394 (53%) | 41 (46%) | 28 (53%) | 95 (58%) | 231 (53%) | |
| Foreign-born | 349 (47%) | 48 (54%) | 21 (47%) | 68 (42%) | 208 (47%) | |
| Race/ethnicity | 17.69 | |||||
| Black | 253 (34%) | 25 (28%) | 16 (31%) | 55 (34%) | 158 (36%) | |
| Asian | 223 (30%) | 35 (39%) | 20 (39%) | 52 (32%) | 113 (26%) | |
| Hispanic | 178 (24%) | 23 (26%) | 11 (22%) | 41 (25%) | 105 (24%) | |
| White | 45 (6%) | 1 (1%) | 1 (2%) | 5 (4%) | 34 (8%) | |
| Other | 45 (6%) | 5 (6%) | 3 (6%) | 10 (6%) | 30 (7%) | |
| Traumatic Life Events | 0.81 | |||||
| 0 events | 174 (23%) | 16 (18%) | 14 (27%) | 38 (23%) | 107 (24%) | |
| 1 event | 144 (19%) | 19 (22%) | 12 (20%) | 35 (21%) | 78 (18%) | |
| 2 events | 139 (19%) | 14 (16%) | 7 (14%) | 32 (19%) | 85 (19%) | |
| 3 events | 108 (15%) | 14 (16%) | 7 (14%) | 25 (15%) | 62 (14%) | |
| 4 or more events | 171 (22%) | 26 (28%) | 13 (24%) | 33 (22%) | 107 (25%) | |
| Racial Discrimination | 0.37 | |||||
| 0 settings | 230 (31%) | 26 (30%) | 18 (37%) | 39 (23%) | 138 (31%) | |
| 1 setting | 171 (23%) | 20 (22%) | 8 (16%) | 44 (26%) | 99 (23%) | |
| 2 settings | 149 (20%) | 20 (22%) | 11 (22%) | 33 (20% | 87 (20%) | |
| 3 settings | 104 (14%) | 7 (8%) | 6 (12%) | 30 (18%) | 59 (13% | |
| 4 or more settings | 97 (13%) | 16 (18%) | 9 (13%) | 17 (13%) | 56 (13%) | |
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| M(SD) | ||||||
| Age | 20.00 (2.12) | 19.76 (1.87) | 19.61 (1.59) | 20.15 (2.11) | 20.03 (2.22) | 1.23 |
|
Frequency of
Racial discrimination |
3.10 (3.43) | 3.40 (3.87) | 2.98 (3.42) | 3.17 (3.05) | 3.03 (3.48) | 0.34 |
| Dissociative Symptoms | 6.66 (7.16) | 10.89 (10.84) | 8.02 (6.88) | 6.76 (7.08) | 5.72 (6.16) | 13.26* |
Note. Group 1= accept it as a fact of life and keep it to yourself; Group 2 = try to do something about it and keep it to yourself; Group 3= accept it as a fact of life and talk to other about it; Group 4= try to do something about it and talk to others about it.
*
p < .05. Frequency of racial discrimination was included in further analyses.