Table 2.

Sexual debut timing and emerging adult depressive symptomatology: Logistic regression results, Female Participants

	Crude Bivariate Relationships: Emerging Adult Depressive Symptomsa		Adjusted Logistic Regression: Emerging Adult Depressive Symptomsa
	Crude OR (95% CI)	p-valuec	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	p-valuec
Sexual debut timingb
Late	Referent	0.015	Referent	0.284
Typical	1.16 (0.78 – 1.71)		0.93 (0.61 – 1.42)
Early	1.82 (1.17 – 2.83)		1.28 (0.78 – 2.12)
WIII Age	0.92 (0.80 – 1.05)	0.209	0.87 (0.76 – 1.00)	0.055
WI depressive symptoms	3.39 (2.31 – 4.99)	<.001	3.14 (2.09 – 4.71)	<.001
Race
White	Referent	0.040	Referent	0.368
Black	1.62 (1.09 – 2.41)		1.31 (0.83 – 2.07)
Other	1.53 (0.99 – 2.36)		1.29 (0.81 – 2.04)
Hispanic ethnicity	1.33 (0.84 – 2.09)	0.224	1.07 (0.63 – 1.84)	0.777
Living arrangement
Two biologic parents	Referent	<.001	Referent	0.056
Stepfamily	1.61 (1.05 – 2.47)		1.44 (0.92 – 2.27)
Single parent	2.05 (1.34 – 3.13)		1.62 (0.97 – 2.71)
Other	2.93 (1.49 – 5.76)		2.43 (1.15 – 5.14)
Parent education
HS diploma/GED	Referent	0.032	Referent	0.591
<HS diploma	2.20 (1.31 – 3.71)		1.48 (0.83 – 2.65)
Some college	1.43 (0.92 – 2.23)		1.15 (0.72 – 1.83)
≥Bachelors	1.39 (0.84 – 2.31)		1.17 (0.70 – 1.95)

^aHigh depressive symptomatology was based on scoring at or above the proportionately adjusted depression cutpoint on the modified Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale (range 0–27). The cutpoints are 10 for males and 11 for females.

^bSexual debut prior to age sixteen was classified as early, debut between ages 16 and 18 was classified as typical, debut after age 18 (including those who did not debut by Wave III interview) was classified as late.

^cFor multi-category predictor variables, p-values refer to joint tests of statistical significance