Table 2.
Description of number of dating partners and sexual partners
|
Girls (n = 282) |
Boys (n = 190) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Currently datinga (n = 124) |
Currently non-datinga (n = 156) |
|
Currently datinga (n = 90) |
Currently non-datinga (n = 100) |
|
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| Mean (SD) | % (freq) | Mean (SD) | % (freq) | p | Mean (SD) | % (freq) | Mean (SD) | % (freq) | p | ||
| Number of dating partners ever had |
0 |
|
0.0 (0) |
|
44.5 (69) |
0.000 |
|
0.0 (0) |
|
23.0 (23) |
0.014 |
| 1 |
|
22.2 (26) |
|
25.2 (39) |
|
18.4 (16) |
|
26.0 (26) |
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| 2 or more |
|
77.8 (91) |
|
30.3 (47) |
|
81.6 (71) |
|
51.0 (51) |
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| Total |
1.78 (0.42) |
|
0.86 (0.86) |
|
0.000 |
1.82 (0.39) |
|
1.28 (0.82) |
|
0.004 |
|
| Number of current dating partners |
0 |
|
0.0 (0) |
|
100.0 (156) |
- |
|
0.0 (0) |
|
100.0 (100) |
- |
| 1 |
|
75.8 (94) |
|
0.0 (0) |
|
68.9 (62) |
|
0.0 (0) |
|||
| 2 or more |
|
24.2 (30) |
|
0.0 (0) |
|
31.1 (28) |
|
0.0 (0) |
|||
| Total |
1.24 (0.43) |
|
0 (−) |
|
- |
1.31 (0.47) |
|
0 (−) |
|
- |
|
| Number of sex partners in the past 3 months | 0 |
|
58.8 (10) |
|
87.5 (7) |
- |
|
50.0 (17) |
|
88.9 (16) |
- |
| 1 |
|
41.2 (7) |
|
12.5 (1) |
|
29.4 (10) |
|
11.1 (2) |
|||
| 2 or more |
|
0.0 (0) |
|
0.0 (0) |
|
20.6 (7) |
|
0.0 (0) |
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| Total | 0.20 (0.41) | 0.05 (0.28) | 0.193 | 0.47 (0.71) | 0.06 (0.24) | 0.006 | |||||
aParticipants who had a partner at the time of the survey were classified as “Currently Dating” and those who had no partners were classified as “Currently Non-dating”.