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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 May 11.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2023 May 11;93(4):335–349. doi: 10.1037/ort0000677

Table 6:

Differences between demographic groups in barriers discussing sexuality with parents

Thematic clusters
Effect Estimate (Std. Error)
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 *