Table 4.

Ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions of everyday discrimination on psychological distress stratified by education and place of education: U.S. Asian American in the National Latino and Asian American Study 2002–2003

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4
	College or more levels of education		Less than college levels of education
	Foreign-educated (n = 617)	U.S.-educated (n = 275)	Foreign-educated (n = 741)	U.S.-educated (n = 452)
Ethnicity (Vietnamesea)
Filipino	−.083 (.078)	−.113 (.097)	−.018 (.059)	.053 (.102)
Chinese	.080 (.072)	−.145 (.094)	.087† (.048)	.148 (.105)
Other Asians	.095 (.070)	−.216* (.092)	.027 (.058)	−.026 (.099)
Gender (malea)
Female	−.003 (.036)	.107* (.048)	.076* (.036)	.140** (.047)
Age (years)	−.001 (.001)	.003 (.002)	.003† (.001)	.000 (.002)
Marital status (never marrieda)
Married	−.063 (.052)	−.110* (.056)	−.307*** (.065)	.034 (.064)
Divorced/separated/never married	.017 (.092)	−.194† (.108)	−.259** (.085)	−.005 (.095)
Household income (<$15,000a)
$15,000–$34,999.9	.105 (.077)	−.083 (.104)	−.074 (.058)	−.054 (.090)
$35,000–$74,999.9	−.042 (.059)	−.030 (.079)	.037 (.056)	−.151* (.067)
≥$75,000	−.068 (.057)	−.131† (.074)	.020 (.059)	−.144* (.066)
Employment status (unemployeda)
Employed	−.019 (.074)	−.213† (.125)	.000 (.074)	−.081 (.082)
Not in labor force	−.009 (.079)	−.269* (.131)	−.067 (.076)	−.083 (.088)
U.S.-born	.011 (.190)	.077 (.053)	−.162 (.283)	−.080 (.053)
English proficiency (fair to poor englisha)
Excellent or good english	−.191*** (.040)	.094 (.143)	−.092* (.043)	−.126† (.072)
Everyday discrimination	.242*** (.025)	.185*** (.038)	.146*** (.026)	.148*** (.028)
Intercept	1.143	1.141	1.258	1.289
Adjusted R2	.196	.126	.085	.090

^†p <.1;

^*p <.05;

^**p <.01;

^***p <.001 (two-tailed tests).

The regression coefficients are unstandardized, and standard errors are in parentheses

^aReference group