Table 2 Differences in acculturation strategies between older Turkish sub-groups (n = 680)
From: Acculturation is associated with older Turkish immigrants’ self-management abilities
Gender (%) | Educational level (%) | Marital status (%) | Multimorbidity (%) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Acculturation strategy | Male | Female | χ 2 | High | Low | χ 2 | Single | Married | χ 2 | No | Yes | χ 2 |
Integration | 38.5% | 29.3% | 0.015 | 45.8% | 31.0% | 0.002 | 25.1% | 37.8% | 0.002 | 40.5% | 31.4% | 0.027 |
Assimilation | 22.4% | 13.5% | 0.004 | 22.9% | 17.0% | 0.127 | 16.4% | 18.6% | 0.569 | 19.5% | 17.6% | 0.576 |
Separation | 16.7% | 33.6% | < 0.001 | 10.7% | 28.4% | < 0.000 | 31.7% | 22.1% | 0.015 | 21.1% | 26.3% | 0.192 |
Marginalisation | 22.4% | 23.7% | 0.708 | 20.6% | 23.7% | 0.487 | 26.8% | 21.5% | 0.176 | 18.9% | 24.7% | 0.123 |