Table 2.
Male sociodemographics by sexual orientation from weighted analysis of 3785 youth in the U.S. National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (1995–2009).
| Completely heterosexual (n = 3552) |
Mostly heterosexual (n = 131) |
Bisexual (n = 23) |
Gaya (n = 79) |
p-valueb |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measure | Weighted mean (SE) | Weighted mean (SE) | Weighted mean (SE) | Weighted mean (SE) | |||||
| Age in years | 16.0 (0.12) | 16.2 (0.26) | 15.5 (0.43) | 16.5 (0.29) | 0.18 | ||||
| Parental Income (% FPL) |
2.74 (0.06) | 3.24 (0.55) | 2.53 (0.46) | 2.90 (0.54) | 0.69 | ||||
| n | Weighted % (SE) | n | Weighted % (SE) | n | Weighted % (SE) | n | Weighted % (SE) | ||
| Race/ethnicity | 0.05 | ||||||||
| White | 1974 | 69% (2.9) | 82 | 80% (4.5) | 12 | 72% (11.9) | 33 | 56% (7.6) | |
| Black/African-American | 627 | 12% (1.8) | 14 | 6% (2.2) | 2 | 10% (9.0) | 10 | 7% (3.0) | |
| Latino/Hispanic | 523 | 11% (1.7) | 19 | 8% (2.9) | 7 | 13% (8.6) | 19 | 16% (5.5) | |
| American Indian/ Native American |
18 | 0.7% (0.3) | 1 | 0.5% (0.5) | 1 | 4% (3.8) | 0 | 0% (0) | |
| Asian/Pacific islander | 230 | 3% (0.8) | 10 | 5% (2.0) | 1 | 0.2% (0.3) | 10 | 8% (3.5) | |
| Multiracial | 180 | 5% (0.5) | 5 | 1% (0.7) | 0 | 0% (0) | 7 | 12% (4.7) | |
| Parental education | 0.80 | ||||||||
| Less than high school | 395 | 11% (0.8) | 12 | 9% (3.4) | 2 | 17% (11.2) | 9 | 13% (5.8) | |
| Graduated high school | 952 | 26% (1.0) | 33 | 22% (4.2) | 11 | 40% (13.2) | 18 | 19% (5.9) | |
| Some college | 1239 | 34% (1.1) | 45 | 38% (7.0) | 3 | 13% (9.1) | 28 | 36% (7.8) | |
| College graduate | 966 | 28% (1.0) | 41 | 31% (5.5) | 7 | 30% (12.5) | 24 | 31% (5.5) | |
| Weight statusc | < 0.001 | ||||||||
| Underweight | 100 | 3% (0.4) | 4 | 2% (1.6) | 4 | 24% (12.1) | 2 | 1% (1.4) | |
| Healthy weight | 2445 | 68% (1.2) | 78 | 53% (6.0) | 15 | 66% (13.3) | 48 | 70% (7.1) | |
| Overweight | 551 | 16% (0.8) | 21 | 16% (4.2) | 3 | 10% (8.9) | 16 | 15% (4.7) | |
| Obese | 456 | 13% (0.9) | 28 | 28% (6.1) | 1 | 0.2% (0.2) | 13 | 14% (5.5) | |
a
Gay combines “mostly gay” and “100% gay.”
b
Results from t-tests and chi-square analyses to test the differences among sexual orientation groups within each gender group for each sociodemographic variable.
c
Weight status was created from continuous body mass index (kg/m2), which was calculated from self-reported height and weight, as follows: underweight (< 5th percentile), healthy weight (5th ≤ BMI < 85th percentile), overweight (85th ≤ BMI < 95th percentile), obese (≥ 95th percentile) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011).