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Table 1 Sample description

From: The relationship between acculturation and mental health of 1st generation immigrant youth in a representative school survey: does gender matter?

 

Girls

Boys

Total

Test statistics

N (%)

224 (50.9)

216 (49.1)

440

 

Age

16.18 (1.57)

16.28 (1.61)

16.23 (1.59)

ns

School type

   

χ2 (4. N = 440) = 13.23; p = .01; Cramer’s V = .17

 Secondary school

17.9

15.7

16.8

 

 Intermediate secondary school

18.8

16.2

17.5

 

 Comprehensive school

11.6

6.9

9.3

 

 Grammar school

22.8

16.2

19.5

 

 Vocational school

29.0

44.9

36.8

 

 Grade repetition (yes)

36.1

38.3

37.2

ns

Country of origin

   

ns

 Former Soviet Union

50.5

54.5

52.5

 

 Poland

9.3

7.6

8.4

 

 Arabic-Islamic countries

6.9

8.5

7.7

 

 Turkey

6.9

6.3

6.6

 

 Former Yugoslavia

6.9

4.9

5.9

 

 Middle- and West Europe

4.6

4.5

4.5

 

 Other

7.3

7.0

14.3

 

Mental health

 Internalization problems

5.08 (3.11)

3.46 (2.61)

4.29 (2.99)

F(1. 439) = 35.86; p = .000; η2 = .08

 Externalization problems

5.22 (2.93)

5.19 (2.98)

5.21 (2.95)

ns

  1. Percentages are presented for categorical variables; M (SD) are presented for continuous variables