. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 8.

Published in final edited form as: Int Rev Sociol Sport. 2005;40(1):5–23. doi: 10.1177/1012690205052160

Table 1.

Weighted means: female adolescent suicidality by athletic status

	Non-athletes (n = 4486)	All athletes^b (n = 3507)	Highly involved athletes^a ^c (n = 1040)
Age (mean years)	16.24	15.92^***	15.81^***
Proportion white^d	.52	.69^***	.73^***
Proportion black^d	.17	.11^***	.12^*
Proportion Hispanic^d	.12	.08^**	.07^**
Proportion Asian/Pacific Islander^d	.04	.03	.02
Parental education (mean years)	13.88	14.54^***	14.87^***
Proportion urban	.36	.28^*	.26+
Proportion suburban	.51	.56	.55
Proportion rural	.14	.16	.18
Seriously considered suicide, past year	.29	.25^**	.20^***
Made suicide plan, past year	.23	.18^**	.14^***
Attempted suicide, past year	.13	.11	.09^*
Injured in suicide attempt^e	.26	.32	.36

p > .05

^**

p > .01

^***

p > .001

Highly involved athletes are the subset of all athletes who participated on three or more sports teams during the year prior to the survey.

Asterisks indicate significant F-test of mean differences between athletes and non-athletes.

Asterisks indicate significant F-test of mean differences between highly involved athletes and non-athletes.

Proportions do not sum to 1.00 because data for American Indian/Alaskan Native/Other have not been included.

Includes only respondents who have attempted suicide in the year prior to the survey (n = 936).