AJPH First Look, published online ahead of print Feb 28, 2006
Social Support as a Buffer for Perceived Unfair Treatment Among Filipino Americans: Differences Between San Francisco and Honolulu
Gilbert C. Gee, PhD,
Juan Chen, MSW,
Michael S. Spencer, PhD,
Sarita See, PhD,
Oliva A. Kuester, MSW, CSW,
Diem Tran, MPH, MS and
David Takeuchi, PhD
Gilbert C. Gee is with the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Juan Chen, Michael S. Spencer, and Oliva A. Kuester are with the School of Social Work, University of Michigan. Sarita See is with the Department of American Culture and English, School of Literature, Sciences and Arts, University of Michigan. At the time of writing, Diem Tran was with the Office of Analysis, Epidemiology, and Health Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Md. David Takeuchi is with the School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle.

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FIGURE 1— Relationships between health conditions and everyday discrimination (a), emotional support (b), instrumental support (c), by city.
Note. Shown are 2-way interactions with all covariates controlled. All of the slopes for Honolulu are statistically different from 0; none of the slopes for San Francisco are statistically significant.
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FIGURE 2— Relationships between everyday discrimination, instrumental support, and health conditions in San Francisco (a) and Honolulu (b).
Note. Shown are 3-way interactions with all covariates controlled. The slopes of solid lines are statistically different from 0; the slopes of dashed lines are not. "Low" refers to 1 standard deviation below the mean; "high" refers to 1 standard deviation above the mean.
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