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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Immigr Minor Health. 2020 Aug;22(4):736–745. doi: 10.1007/s10903-019-00926-1

Table 1.

Socio-demographic Characteristics of the Sample of Korean American Immigrants

Overall=343 Women (n=161) Men (n= 182)

N or Mean % or SD N or Mean % or SD N or Mean % or SD p
Covariates
Age (years) 40.93 9.85 42.6 11.02 39.4 8.43 0.003
Married (yes/no) 260 75.8% 124 77.0% 136 74.7% 0.621
Income < $40,000 65 18.9% 33 20.5% 32 17.5% 0.492
Employed 189 55.1% 66 40.9% 123 67.5% <0.001
Comorbidity 0.74 1.55 0.83 1.70 0.66 1.41 0.326
Sleep environment 17.43 6.46 16.86 6.41 17.93 6.48 0.125

Acculturation-related variables
Age immigrated to U.S. 29.53 7.43 29.48 7.30 29.26 7.20 0.426
English proficiency 5.69 1.63 5.42 1.68 5.94 1.54 0.003
Korean neighborhood 0.39 0.48 0.44 0.49 0.35 0.48 0.114
Korean orientation 6.26 1.30 6.16 1.23 6.36 1.35 0.149
American orientation 4.27 1.52 4.13 1.52 4.39 1.52 0.118

Acculturative stress subscales
Homesickness 2.02 0.73 2.16 0.77 1.89 0.68 <0.001
Social isolation 1.96 0.80 2.08 0.83 1.85 0.76 0.009
Employment barrier 1.64 0.78 1.79 0.88 1.50 0.66 <0.001
Discrimination 1.76 0.67 1.90 0.70 1.64 0.62 <0.001
Civic disengagement 1.65 0.85 1.78 0.94 1.54 0.74 0.008
Family problem 1.38 0.50 1.40 0.51 1.35 0.49 0.393

Sleep duration
Habitual sleep duration (mins) 427.75 61.02 430.49 71.31 425.45 50.29 0.771
Habitual weekday sleep duration (mins) 416.85 65.37 422.96 74.03 411.76 56.25 0.260
Habitual weekend sleep duration (mins) 454.98 74.04 450.19 84.13 459.23 64.89 0.118
% of Short sleep (<6 hours) 37 10.7% 22 13.6% 15 8.2% 0.106