Table 1.

Sample Characteristics, and Weighted Mean Embarrassment at the Prospect of a Nonmarital Pregnancy Among Selected Subpopulations (N = 812)

	Sample Characteristics		Overall Embarrassment		Embarrassed by Teenage pregnancy		Embarrassed by Adult Pregnancy
Subpopulation	M	SE	M	SE	M	SE	M	SE
All respondents			.18	.02	.24^a	.03	.12 ^a	.02
Parent-to-be’s gender
Female	.52	.02	.17	.02	.22	.04	.12	.03
Male	.48	.02	.19	.02	.26	.04	.13	.03
Respondent’s race/ethnicity
White	.70	.02	.20^*	.02	.26	.03	.15^*	.02
African American	.11	.02	.07^**	.03	.12^*	.05	.03^**	.03
Latino	.13	.02	.17	.04	.23	.06	.09	.06
Other/multiracial	.06	.01	.18	.07	.26	.11	.07	.05
Respondent’s age (years)	45.93	.73
18 – 29 years			.20	.04	.27	.05	.12	.05
30 – 44 years			.16	.03	.24	.05	.08	.03
45 – 59 years			.14	.03	.17	.04	.12	.03
≥ 60 years			.24	.04	.29	.06	.19	.05
Respondent’s education
≤ HS graduate	.48	.02	.15	.02	.18^*	.03	.13	.03
Some college or more	.52	.02	.21	.02	.30^*	.04	.12	.02
Household income ($1000)	47.66	1.59
< $45,000/year			.18	.02	.22	.03	.15	.03
≥ $45,000/year			.18	.02	.26	.04	.10	.02

Notes: Source—National Pregnancy Norms Study (2005). 1 = very or extremely embarrassed.

Embarrassment differs between adult and teenage parents, p < .001

p < .05

^**

p < .01 embarrassment compared to all other categories of the row variable.