Table 1.

Substance Use and Mental Health Outcomes, and Demographic Characteristics of Sexual Minority Girls and Heterosexual Girls in the Pittsburgh Girls Study.

	Sexual minority girls (n = 173)	Heterosexual girls (n = 1,891)
Externalizing disorder symptoms
Alcohol use	59.5%	37.3%
Binge drinking	32.9%	15.8%
Cigarette use	49.1%	17.3%
Marijuana use	50.3%	21.0%
CD	0.15 (0.19)	0.08 (0.11)
ODD	0.83 (0.52)	0.83 (0.53)
Internalizing disorder symptoms
Anxiety	15.10 (10.40)	13.43 (9.44)
Depression	0.85 (0.52)	0.59 (0.43)
Suicidal ideation	26.0%	7.2%
BPD symptoms
BPD symptoms	3.28 (2.10)	2.19 (1.79)
Self-injury	9.5%	1.6%
Covariates
Minority race	64.2%	60.5%
Low parent education	41.6%	43.2%
Age	17.35 (1.25)	17.18 (1.28)

Note. ODD = oppositional defiant disorder; CD = conduct disorder; BPD = borderline personality disorder. The table summarizes the percentage of girls in each sexual orientation group that endorsed each dichotomous outcome or the mean level (standard deviation) for each continuous outcome within each sexual orientation group.