Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of participants in study of self-defined sexual orientation.
| Self-defined sexual orientation | Test b | |||
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| Demographic characteristics a | Heterosexual n=154 (%) |
Other than heterosexual n=23 (%) |
Statistic | p-value |
| Study group | ||||
| Attempter or self-injurer | 98 (63.6) | 17 (73.9) | 0.929 | 0.335 |
| Non-attempter/non-self-injurer | 56 (36.4) | 6 (26.1) | ||
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 70 (45.5) | 6 (26.1) | 3.064 | 0.080 |
| Female | 84 (54.5) | 17 (73.9) | ||
| Age: years, mean (SD) | 36.5 (12.1) | 30.7 (12.9) | 2.154 | 0.033 |
| Race | ||||
| White | 81 (52.6) | 7 (30.4) | 3.932 | 0.047 |
| Non-white | 73 (47.4) | 16 (69.6) | ||
| Religious affiliation | ||||
| Catholic/Protestant/Jewish | 91 (60.3) | 11 (47.8) | 1.273 | 0.259 |
| Other | 60 (39.7) | 12 (52.2) | ||
| Frequence of religious services attendance | ||||
| Once or more per month | 55 (36.2) | 4 (17.4) | 3.157 | 0.076 |
| Less than once per month | 97 (63.8) | 19 (82.6) | ||
| Employed or student c - Yes | 50 (33.1) | 8 (34.8) | 0.025 | 0.874 |
| Household income | ||||
| Less than 20K | 83 (61.9) | 13 (68.4) | 0.299 | 0.585 |
| 20K and greater | 51 (38.1) | 6 (31.6) | ||
| Highest education | ||||
| Less than high school graduate | 43 (27.9) | 3 (13.0) | 2.303 | 0.129 |
| High school grad and higher | 111 (72.1) | 20 (87.0) | ||
| Number of children: mean (SD) | 1.23 (1.54) | 0.74 (1.51) | 1.442 | 0.151 |
| Parent (at least 1 child) - Yes | 86 (55.8) | 6 (26.1) | 7.099 | 0.008 |
a
Totals do not always equal 237 due to missing data.
b
Test comparing ‘straight’ and ‘other than straight’ groups. Continuous variables tests are t-tests, categorical variables tests are Chi-squares.
c
‘Yes’ includes full-time or part-time, ‘no’ includes unemployed, retired, homemaker, disabled, other.