Table 2.

Predictors of frequency of sexual touching, by gender

	Men		Women
	Bivariate	Multivariate	Bivariate	Multivariate
Age
57–64	1.7+	1.4	0.8	1.0
65–74	1.6	1.4	1.0	1.2
75–85	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Race/ethnicity
White	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Black	0.6+	0.8	0.2*** (0.1–0.3)	0.2*** (0.1–0.4)
Native/Asian/other	0.6	0.6	2.3	2.4
Hispanic	1.0	1.1	1.0	1.6
Education
Less than high school	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
High school	1.5	1.3	1.4	1.3
Some college	1.4	1.2	2.7* (1.1–6.3)	2.3+ (1.0–5.2)
Bachelors (BA) or more	1.9	1.6	1.9	1.5
Relationship type
Married or cohabiting	1.0	0.6	2.0	1.2
Other	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Physical health
Poor/fair	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Good	1.1	0.9	1.2	1.4
Very good	1.4	1.0	2.1* (1.0–4.4)	2.1+ (1.0–4.2)
Excellent	2.3** (1.3–4.3)	1.4	2.2* (1.0–4.6)	2.4* (1.0–5.5)
Stress	0.7* (0.5–0.9)	0.8	0.7** (0.5–0.9)	1.0
Anxiety symptoms	0.9	1.8* (1.0–3.3)	0.7** (0.5–0.9)	0.9
Depressive symptoms	0.5** (0.3–0.8)	0.6* (0.4–0.9)	0.6* (0.4–0.9)	1.3
Taking SSRI antidepressant	0.4+	0.4	0.5	0.6
Taking impotence medication	0.9	0.7
How emotionally satisfying is relationship
Not, slightly, or moderately	0.1*** (0.08–0.3)	0.1*** (0.09–0.2)	0.1*** (0.06–0.2)	0.1*** (0.05–0.2)
Very	0.4*** (0.2–0.6)	0.4** (0.3–0.7)	0.4* (0.2–0.8)	0.4* (0.2–0.8)
Extremely	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref

Odds (95% CI’s) from ordered logistic regression models of frequency of sexual touching. Odds in the multivariate columns are from models that include all predictors

Ref reference category

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^*p<.05;

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^***p<.001