Table 2.

Percent of Students Reporting Interpersonal Consequences of First Sexual Intercourse by Participant Gender

Positive Interpersonal Consequences	Total Sample	Male	Female	χ 2
Any positive interpersonal consequence	81.9	82.4	79.3	0.3
Feel intimate or closer to partner	70.5	70.9	70.1	< 0.1
Feel you avoided annoying or angering your partner	22.1	20.4	24.1	0.4
Feel you enhanced your reputation	23.2	38.8	4.6	31.1***
Negative Interpersonal Consequences
Any negative interpersonal consequence	44.4	50.0	37.9	2.8
Feel like things moved too fast	28.3	26.0	31.0	0.6
Worry your partner wants more commitment	18.0	26.5	8.1	10.8***
Worry another partner could find out	5.8	9.6	1.2	6.3**
Feel you harmed your reputation	14.1	12.5	16.1	0.5

Note: χ² indicates whether there are significant sex differences in reporting given consequence.

^*p < .05

^**p < .01

^***p < .001.