The relationship between acculturation strategies and depressive and anxiety disorders in Turkish migrants in the Netherlands

Table 1 Characteristics of the Turkish group from the AHM of 2005

	Turkish migrants
	N = 210
	n	%
Gender
Male	126	60.0
Female	84	40.0
Age (M,SD)	47.4	14.2
18 - 35	44	21.0
36 - 49	74	35.2
≥ 50	92	43.8
Education level^a
None or primary school	103	49.0
Middle education.	35	16.7
Higher education	48	22.9
Daily occupation
Yes, job/student	60	28.6
No, unemployed.	150	81.4
Partnership^b
Yes, partner	169	80.5
No, single	38	18.1
Acculturation^c
Integration	41	19.5
Assimilation	44	21.0
Separation	87	41.4
Marginalization	24	11.4
Depression and dysthymia (1-month)	36	17.1
Anxiety disorders (1-month)	21	10.0
Comorbidity	14	6.7
Amount of the contacts with GP^d
No contact (0)	58	27.6
Low (0-3)	90	42.9
High (>3)	61	29.0

Note. Results are based on the completers only sample due to varying attrition rates on measurements. Numbers do not add up to 210, because not all participants answered all the questions. Missing values are noted in superscript: a: n = 24; b: n = 3; c: n = 14 and d: n = 59.

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