Table 2.
Cultural Group Differences on Main Study Variables.
| Variable | European Americans (n = 119)
|
U.S.-born Asians (n = 71)
|
Foreign-born Asians (n = 88)
|
Fc | η2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | |||
| Sex | χ2 = 37.39** | — | |||
| Male | 30.25% | 67.61% | 67.05% | ||
| Female | 69.75% | 32.39% | 32.95% | ||
| Age | 21.52 (5.84) | 19.97 (1.38) | 21.17 (4.18) | 39.63** | .22 |
| Years living in the United States | 20.11 (6.07) | 19.25 (3.50) | 6.21 (6.56) | 241.51** | .64 |
| Expressive suppression | 3.41 (1.16) | 3.82 (1.08) | 3.83 (1.19) | ns | |
| Interdependent versus independent self-construala | −0.03 (1.00) | 0.08 (0.79) | 0.01 (0.85) | ns | |
| Reading the mind in the eyesb | 0.71 (0.10) | 0.73 (0.09) | 0.68 (0.09) | 2.87* | .02 |
| Video emotion recognitionb | 0.64 (0.11) | 0.64 (0.13) | 0.60 (0.13) | ns |
a
Variable is centered at zero.
b
Reflects proportion correct.
c
F values are computed from ANCOVAs covarying for background variables (i.e., sex, age, and years living in the United States).