Table 6:
Differences between demographic groups in barriers discussing sexuality with parents
| Thematic clusters Effect Estimate (Std. Error) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Predictor | Shame | Awkward | X | N/A | |
| Continuous predictors | |||||
| Age | 0.043 (0.031) | −0.080 (0.044)* | 0.005 (0.044) | 0.002 (0.039) | |
| Gender Typicality | 0.009 (0.005)** | −0.008 (0.005) | 0.002 (0.007) | (−0.005) (0.006) | |
| Heritage Acculturation | 0.054 (0.026)** | −0.037 (0.029) | −0.059 (0.038) | −0.000 (0.035) | |
| Mainstream Acculturation | −0.016 (0.025) | 0.020 (0.027) | 0.038 (0.039) | −0.019 (0.032) | |
| Religiosity total | −0.015 (0.024) | 0.010 (0.027) | −0.018 (0.038) | 0.047 (0.031) | |
| Categorical predictors | |||||
| Parental SES (reference group: ≤ High school degree) | College or technical degree | 0.267 (0.280) | 0.293 (0.326) | −0.281 (0.391) | −0.516 (0.357) |
| Graduate degree | 0.488 (0.301) | −0.111 (0.352) | −0.719 (0.451) | −0.170 (0.373) | |
| Gender/sex (reference group: Female) | Male | −0.379 (0.187)** | 0.310 (0.203) | 0.268 (0.281) | −0.319 (0.260) |
| Sexual Orientation (reference group: Heterosexual) | Bisexual | 1.548 (0.204)**** | −0.887 (0.347) | −0.052 (0.414) | −1.361 (0.478)*** |
| Mostly heterosexual | 0.493 (0.230)** | −0.165 (0.258) | −0.648 (0.428) | −0.065 (0.299) | |
| Other | 2.402 (1.127)** | −14.840 (500.387) | N/A | −0.392 (1.155) | |
| Race (reference group: white) | Non-white | −0.033 (0.221) | 0.179 (0.252) | −0.265 (0.333) | 0.049 (0.300) |
| Religion in family of origin (reference group: Protestant) | Evangelical | 0.618 (0.290)** | −0.088 (0.323) | −0.300 (0.437) | −0.768 (0.451)* |
| Non-denominational Christian | 0.230 (0.298) | −0.184 (0.346) | −0.170 (0.446) | −0.030 (0.398) | |
| Catholic | −0.015 (0.236) | 0.352 (0.257) | −0.531 (0.376) | 0.215 (0.306) | |
| Other | 0.515 (0.414) | −0.488 (0.511) | 0.185 (0.554) | −0.117 (0.566) | |
| None/Agnostic | 0.473 (0.465) | 0.022 (0.531) | 0.436 (0.596) | −1.666 (1.062) | |
| Atheist | −0.567 (0.4354) | 0.322 (0.388) | −0.732 (0.606) | 0.749 (0.433)* | |
Note: Cells with N/A indicate there were no participants in that demographic group who endorsed that thematic cluster.
p < 0.001 is indicated by ***;
p < 0.01 is indicated by **;
p < 0.05 is indicated by *