Table 3.

Comparing means of psychometric measures among Spanish, Portuguese, and English speakers.

	Portuguese [mean (SD)] N = 689	English [mean (SD)] N = 672	Spanish [mean (SD)] N = 1,610–1,613	p-value
Stress and social support
Psychological distress	3.56 (3.60)	3.13 (3.33)	2.66 (3.35)	<0.001
Peritraumatic stress	1.52 (0.75)	1.46 (0.78)	1.57 (0.77)	0.01
Social support	41.29 (9.69)	40.82 (9.59)	41.71 (9.15)	0.11
Brief symptom inventory scores
Somatization	0.64 (0.75)	0.62 (0.70)	1.21 (1.10)	<0.001
Obsessive-compulsive	1.45 (0.93)	1.37 (0.96)	1.30 (0.98)	0.002
Interpersonal sensitivity	1.16 (0.98)	1.13 (0.99)	1.02 (0.97)	0.002
Depression	1.37 (0.97)	1.31 (1.00)	1.56 (1.08)	<0.001
Anxiety	1.30 (0.93)	1.03 (0.90)	1.34 (1.02)	<0.001
Hostility	0.95 (0.81)	0.84 (0.81)	0.71 (1.03)	<0.001
Phobic anxiety	1.07 (1.07)	1.15 (0.99)	0.85 (1.20)	<0.001
Paranoid ideation	0.88 (0.81)	0.81 (0.78)	0.90 (1.01)	0.12
Psychoticism	0.84 (0.78)	0.79 (0.76)	0.46 (0.75)	<0.001
General severity index	0.95 (0.72)	1.15 (0.86)	1.13 (0.80)	<0.001
Personality scales
Novelty seeking	23.11 (2.54)	22.65 (3.48)	23.25 (3.91)	0.001
Harm avoidance	23.64 (2.86)	23.70 (3.57)	20.39 (4.37)	<0.001
Reward dependence	21.36 (2.78)	21.02 (3.38)	23.09 (3.37)	<0.001
Persistence	26.15 (3.22)	26.03 (3.10)	27.74 (6.13)	<0.001
Excitability	18.38 (2.42)	18.75 (2.40)	17.49 (2.85)	<0.001
Self-directedness	24.07 (3.98)	23.38 (3.77)	17.94 (6.06)	<0.001
Cooperativeness	23.48 (3.09)	22.10 (4.04)	20.45 (3.45)	<0.001
Self-transcendence	24.91 (3.22)	25.12 (3.40)	22.14 (9.24)	<0.001

Significant (Bonferroni-corrected) p < 0.002 are represented bold.