Table 2.

Potentially traumatic events and minority stressors by race/ethnicity and sexual identity (N = 662)

	Total (n = 662)		Race/ethnicity							Sexual identity
			Black (n = 237)		Latinx (n = 155)		White (n = 246)		p a	Bisexual (n = 170)		Lesbian (n = 492)		p a
VARIABLE	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n		%	n	%	n
Potentially Traumatic Events (PTEs)
Wyatt childhood sexual abuse	58.8	389	62.9	149	58.1	90	55.3	136	0.705	55.3	94	60.0	295	0.330
Childhood physical abuse	59.7	395	78.1	185	59.4	92	41.9	103	<.001	57.6	98	60.4	297	0.606
Childhood neglect	11.5	76	10.1	24	10.3	16	13.4	33	0.661	9.4	16	12.2	60	0.273
Adult sexual assault	31.0	205	29.5	70	25.2	39	35.4	87	0.661	34.1	58	29.9	147	0.273
Adult physical assault	33.2	220	40.9	97	29.7	46	27.6	68	0.417	34.1	58	32.9	162	0.121
Intimate partner violence (lifetime)	30.7	203	40.5	96	36.1	56	18.7	46	<.001	33.5	57	29.7	146	0.691
Sentinel events (lifetime)
Interpersonal (M/SD)	3.48	2.41	4.11	2.42	3.50	2.56	2.83	2.11	0.051	3.71	2.34	3.40	2.43	0.398
Non-interpersonal (M/SD)	2.30	1.51	2.57	1.55	2.17	1.52	2.09	1.43	0.025	2.22	1.37	2.33	1.56	0.658
Minority Stressors
Experienced discrimination	1.73	2.60	1.93	2.88	1.63	2.42	1.56	2.38	0.361	1.89	2.65	1.68	2.59	0.301
Discrim race/ethnicityb
Never endorsed	80.7	534	69.6	165	77.4	120	96.3	237	<.001	75.9	129	82.3	405	0.065
Once	12.8	85	19.8	47	14.8	23	2.4	6		15.3	26	12.0	59
More than once	6.5	43	10.5	25	7.7	12	1.2	3		8.8	15	5.7	28
Discrim sexual identityb
Never endorsed	67.1	444	69.2	164	68.4	106	63.4	156	0.070	74.7	127	64.4	317	<.001
Once	16.2	107	15.6	37	14.8	23	17.9	44		9.4	16	18.5	91
More than once	16.8	111	15.2	36	16.8	26	18.7	46		15.9	27	17.1	84
Discrim sex/genderb
Never endorsed	83.8	555	87.8	208	82.6	128	81.7	201	0.047	79.4	135	85.4	420	0.532
Once	9.8	65	8.0	19	13.5	21	8.5	21		10.6	18	9.6	47
More than once	6.3	42	4.2	10	3.9	6	9.8	24		10.0	17	5.1	25
Stigma consciousness (M/SD)c	0.00	1.00	0.06	0.96	−0.20	1.15	0.06	0.96	0.016	0.09	1.21	−0.02	0.92	0.599
Internalized homophobia (M/SD)	14.56	5.35	15.09	5.70	14.95	5.90	13.80	4.54	<.001	17.20	6.12	13.65	4.73	<.001

^a.P-value from logistic (for dichotomous variables) linear (for continuous variables) regression on race/ethnicity, sexual identity, and race/ethnicity*sexual identity interaction, controlling for age and education.

^b.Categories collapsed into “Any” vs “None” due to small n’s for logistic regression models

^c.Stigma consciousness combines different questions for lesbian and bisexual women and standardizes within these groups, and then combines across the sample. As this is a standardized score, not an average score it has a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1. Thus, the negative score for Latinx women (for example) indicates a lower score among that group, on average, when compared to the overall mean.

^d.Participants of other race/ethnicities are not included in this table.