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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Transcult Nurs. 2016 Apr 19;28(3):243–250. doi: 10.1177/1043659616644960

Table 1.

Demographics, Acculturation, and Acculturation Stress for Hispanic Mothers Divided by Separations.

None (n = 328) Adult child (n = 60) Minor child (n = 37)



Variable M SD M SD M SD Wald χ2
Age 37.77 7.79 44.97 4.21 36.57 7.14 26.07***
Education (years) 13.08 3.35 13.25 4.18 12.35 3.40 0.85
Years in United States 12.78 10.8 9.38 9.21 6.41 5.94 21.93***
Number of people living on income 3.30 1.20 2.30 0.93 2.32 1.13 25.62***
Acculturation (Americanism) 2.36 0.75 1.87 0.70 1.92 0.59 15.67***
Acculturation (Hispanicism) 3.54 0.44 3.65 0.32 3.75 0.29 10.64**
Born in United States, n (%) 18 (5) 1 (2) 0 (0) 3.63
Family income (>$2000 per month), n (%) 102 (31) 12 (20) 5 (14) 7.32*
Acculturation stress
  Occupational/economic 2.83 2.37 4.22 2.75 4.19 3.01 19.82***
  Marital 3.66 2.95 4.47 3.03 3.62 2.76 3.38
  Immigration 4.34 3.62 6.30 3.92 7.12 4.43 20.51***
  Family/cultural 3.24 3.11 3.97 2.82 3.00 2.66 2.52

Note. The values in bold are statistically significant.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

***

p < .001.