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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 8.
Published in final edited form as: Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2013 Apr;19(2):131–142. doi: 10.1037/a0031547

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for Study Variables

Full sample (n = 1,081) Foreign-born Asian Americans (n = 239) U.S.-born Asian Americans (n = 445) Foreign-born Latinos (n = 66) U.S.-born Latinos (n = 331)
Variable α M SD α M SD α M SD α M SD α M SD F(3, 1016–1078)
Foreigner objectification .71 1.63 0.65 .70 1.85 0.70b .69 1.55 0.60a .62 2.03 0.66c .70 1.51 0.61a 25.20**
Perceived discrimination .81 2.99 0.72 .78 2.86 0.66a .79 2.94 0.65ab .84 3.08 0.83bc .83 3.12 0.80c 6.86**
Identity denial 2.67 1.15 2.60 1.08 2.73 1.11 2.47 1.14 2.68 1.24 1.32
Self-esteem .89 3.63 0.72 .84 3.53 0.64a .87 3.48 0.67a .91 3.96 0.76b .90 3.84 0.76b 21.94**
Life satisfaction .87 3.88 1.10 .85 3.84 1.03a .87 3.75 1.06a .90 4.01 1.28ab .87 4.08 113b 6.12**
Depressive symptoms .92 2.62 0.72 .90 2.67 0.67 .91 2.65 0.70 .94 2.44 0.82 .92 2.58 0.75 2.14
Cognitive reappraisals .90 4.85 1.15 .86 4.72 1.08a .89 4.73 1.12a .90 5.08 1.36b .90 5.06 116b 7.30**
Emotional suppression .77 3.88 1.21 .73 4.04 1.12b .75 3.98 1.16b .81 3.57 1.32a .80 3.69 1.28a 6.43**
Familism .88 3.66 0.58 .89 3.91 0.60 .88 3.61 0.57 .85 3.73 0.53 .89 3.69 0.60 2.33

Note. Pattern of mean differences indicated with subscript letters; similar letters indicate nonsignificant differences and successive letters indicate significantly higher values. Degrees of freedom vary across analyses because of different patterns of missing values.

**

p ≤ .01.