Table 1.

Weighted descriptive statistics for all variables included in the models

	US-born Mexican (reference)		Mexican documented			Mexican undocumented
	mean	std dev	Mean	std dev	eff sz	mean	std dev	eff sz
Parenting Strain	10.31	2.95 b,c	9.82	3.05 a,c	0.16	9.67	3.17 a,b	0.21
Maternal characteristics
Age	32.39	8.43 b	37.13	8.95 a,c	0.55	31.29	6.35 b	0.15
Education (low education, <HS)	0.19	0.39 b,c	0.65	0.48 a,c	1.05	0.79	0.41 a,b	1.50
Poor family	0.32	0.47 b,c	0.46	0.50 a,c	0.29	0.74	0.44 a,b	0.92
Single parent	0.51	0.50 b	0.37	0.48 a,c	0.29	0.53	0.50 b	0.04
Employment	0.71	0.45 b,c	0.49	0.50 a,c	0.46	0.35	0.48 a,b	0.77
English proficiency	0.93	0.25 b,c	0.24	0.43 a,c	1.96	0.04	0.19 a,b	4.01
Total number of children	2.49	1.11 b,c	2.67	1.28 a	0.15	2.87	1.42 a	0.30
Depression	0.19	0.40	0.12	0.33	0.19	0.11	0.32	0.22
Spousal support	0.03	0.65 b	0.01	0.79 a,c	0.03	0.03	0.61 b	0.11
Neighborhood direct associations
Perceived neighborhood danger	0.32	0.47 c	0.30	0.46 c	0.04	0.40	0.49 a,b	0.17
Collective efficacy	25.76	4.69 b	27.00	4.57 a,c	0.27	26.39	4.42 b	0.14
Concentrated disadvantage	−0.49	0.93 b,c	0.00	0.96 a,c	0.52	0.30	0.97 a,b	0.83
Percent foreign born	−0.46	1.01 b,c	−0.04	0.95 a,c	0.43	0.33	0.93 a,b	0.81
Percent Latino	−0.40	1.24 b,c	0.06	0.99 a,c	0.41	0.16	0.77 a,b	0.54
Unweighted N	295		644			494

Source: Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Study Wave 1; U.S. Census 2000

^aSignificantly different from U.S.-born Mexican mothers, p<.05 (one-tailed test)

^bSignificantly different from documented Mexican mothers, p<.05 (one-tailed test)

^cSignificantly different from undocumented Mexican mothers, p<.05 (one-tailed test)