Table 4.
Adulthood Correlates of Religious Experience
| Stayed Christian (N = 455) | Left Christianity (N = 778) | Never Christian (N = 296) | ||
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| Resilience | M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | F |
| Current outness (1-4)# | ||||
| Family | 2.9 (1.1) | 2.8 (1.1) | 2.8 (1.0) | 1.16 |
| Friends | 3.2 (1.0) | 3.3 (0.9) | 3.2 (0.8) | 0.01 |
| LGBT community connectedness (1-4) | 3.0 (0.7) | 3.1 (0.6) | 3.0 (0.6) | 1.05 |
| Social support (1-7) | 5.2 (1.4) | 5.1 (1.2) | 5.2 (1.2) | 0.80 |
| Health Indicators | ||||
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| Psychological distress (0-24) | 8.3 (6.0) | 8.9 (5.4) | 9.5 (5.2) | 2.55 |
| Social well-being (1-7) | 4.5 (0.9) | 4.6 (0.9) | 4.4 (0.9) | 1.64 |
| Minority Stress | ||||
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| Felt stigma (1-5)# | 2.8 (0.9)a | 2.8 (1.0)a | 2.5 (0.9)b | 5.22* |
| Internalized homophobia and transphobia | 1.9 (0.9)a | 1.7 (0.8)b | 1.8 (0.8)a, b | 5.85* |
| Discrimination (0-9) | 3.0 (3.0) | 3.2 (2.9) | 2.7 (2.5) | 2.03 |
| % [95% CI] | % [95% CI] | % [95% CI] | F | |
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| Experienced SOGICE | 13.9 [10.0, 19.0] | 8.3 [6.1, 11.2] | 5.3 [3.0, 9.3] | 497 ** |
Note. SOGICE = Sexual Orientation Gender Identity Change Effort. F value derived from Multinomial Logistic Regression; Means with differing subscripts within rows differ significantly at p < .05 based on multinomial logistic regression results;
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these variables were only asked of sexual minority respondents in the Generations study (n = 1,342, Stayed Christian n = 420, Left Christianity n = 675, Never Christian n = 247);
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p < .05