The mediating effect of discrimination, social support and hopelessness on self-rated health of Roma adolescents in Slovakia

Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics, self-rated health, discrimination, social supports, hopelessness and sensitivity for social desirability of the Roma and non-Roma samples (numbers, percentages, and p-values for differences between the two groups)

Categorical variables		Roma (N = 300)		Non-Roma (N = 459)
		N	%	N	%	p value
Gender						not significant^a
	Boys	147	49.0	234	51.0
Father's educational level						p < 0.001^a
	Elementary	154	52.6	8	1.8
	Apprenticeship	112	38.2	86	19.9
	Secondary	20	6.8	220	48.9
	University	7	2.4	136	30.2
Mother's educational level						p < 0.001^a
	Elementary	215	73.9	19	4.2
	Apprenticeship	58	19.9	68	15.0
	Secondary	16	5.5	222	49.1
	University	2	0.7	143	31.6
Parents' highest educational level						p < 0.001^a
	Elementary	137	45.7	5	1.1
	Apprenticeship	127	42.3	47	10.2
	Secondary	28	9.3	217	47.3
	University	8	2.7	190	41.4
Poor self-rated health		152	50.7	102	22.2	p < 0.001 ^a
Discrimination		93	31.0	42	9.2	p < 0.001 ^a
Continuous variables
		Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)
Age		14.5 (SD 1.0)		14.8 (SD 0.6)		p < 0.001^b
Social Desirability		2.2 (SD 1.3)		1.0 (SD 1.1)		p < 0.001^c
Hopelessness		1.2 (SD 1.3)		0.7 (SD 1.2)		p < 0.001^c
Mother’s social support		21.2 (SD 2.6)		20.3 (SD 3.2)		p < 0.001^c
Father’s social support		20.8 (SD 3.2)		18.9 (SD 4.4)		p < 0.001^c

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