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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2026 May 28.
Published before final editing as: Psychol Sex Orientat Gend Divers. 2026 May 18:10.1037/sgd0000932. doi: 10.1037/sgd0000932

Table 1.

Sample descriptives.

Full Sample (n=961) Changed sexual identity (n = 92) Plurisexual to monosexual (n=41) Monosexual to Plurisexual (n=39) Changed to other sexual identities (n=14)
N (SD) Weighted % N (SD) Weighted % N (SD) Weighted % N (SD) Weighted % N (SD) Weighted %
Sex assigned at birth
Female 499 56.8% 58 71.3% 24 67.6% 24 71.4% 10 82.4%
Male 462 43.2% 34 28.7% 17 32.4% 15 28.6% 2 17.6%
Gender identity at Wave 1
Woman 463 52.5% 52 64.4% 20 63.3% 23 63.7% 9 70.5%
Man 444 40.7% 31 26.7% 14 29.6% 15 26.6% 2 17.6%
Non-binary 54 6.8% 9 8.9% 5 7.2% 3 9.6% 1 11.8%
Sexual identity at Wave 1
Monosexual 561 49.9% 33 40.0% 4 74.7% 27 51.1% 2 24.8%
Plurisexual 400 50.1% 59 60.0% 37 25.3% 12 48.9% 10 75.2%
Age 38.0 (14.9) 33.3 (14.0) 31.9 (13.0) 33.8 (15.2) 36.3 (13.4)
Race-ethinicity
Non-Latino White 687 69.7% 60 65.1% 26 60.5% 25 67.1% 9 73.1%
Non-Latino Black 71 7.8% 7 6.5% 3 8.1% 4 6.8% 0 0.0%
Latino 76 8.6% 6 5.1% 3 4.2% 3 7.3% 0 0.0%
Multiracial 127 14.0% 19 23.3% 7 27.2% 9 18.7% 3 26.9%
Urbanicity
Non-urban 108 11.1% 14 13.1% 7 13.1% 6 13.1% 1 13.1%
Urban 853 88.9% 78 86.9% 32 86.9% 35 86.9% 11 86.9%
Education
High School or Less 164 37.9% 18 42.6% 10 44.1% 7 49.3% 1 14.2%
Some college 295 32.5% 34 35.9% 14 28.6% 14 33.9% 6 65.9%
College 291 17.8% 24 13.0% 8 16.5% 12 8.8% 4 16.6%
More than college 211 11.8% 16 8.6% 7 10.8% 8 8.0% 1 3.3%
Cohort
Younger (18–26 years) 387 56.2% 47 65.0% 21 63.0% 22 72.9% 4 43.5%
Middle (32–43 years) 230 22.3% 25 25.3% 8 29.8% 12 16.0% 5 43.9%
Older (52–60 years) 344 21.5% 20 9.7% 10 7.2% 7 11.1% 3 12.7%
Income Level
<100% FPL 101 14.4% 9 15.3% 4 12.5% 4 16.0% 1 21.3%
100–299% FPL 161 21.4% 19 18.5% 6 10.1% 7 18.8% 6 43.5%
200–299% FPL 120 12.6% 13 15.5% 5 22.0% 6 9.1% 2 16.8%
300% + FPL 563 51.5% 48 50.7% 23 55.4% 22 56.1% 3 18.4%
Religion
Agnostic or Atheist 411 46.3% 42 46.0% 19 43.2% 19 50.0% 4 40.4%
Reported a religion 536 53.7% 49 54.0% 21 56.8% 20 50.0% 8 59.6%

Note: NL = Non-Latino. Examples of other sexual identities include asexual, and heterosexual. FPL = Federal poverty line.

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Row percentages based on the valid percent (excludes missing values).