Table 1.
n | LSAS Fear M(SD) α |
LSAS Avoidance M(SD) α |
LSAS Social M(SD) α |
LSAS Perform M(SD) α |
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lesbian | 22 | 20.02(12.76) .92 |
20.48(11.73) .87 |
19.55(12.17) .89 |
20.94(12.46) .91 |
Gay | 21 | 16.63(8.96) .92 |
15.34(7.22) .87 |
16.01(7.67) .89 |
16.03(9.35) .91 |
Heterosexual | 54 | 18.21(12.00) .94 |
17.84(10.73) .89 |
18.14(12.31) .93 |
17.87(10.22) .89 |
Bisexual | 55 | 26.27(11.85) .88 |
25.93(12.42) .86 |
27.52(13.16) .89 |
24.94(11.92) .90 |
Indicated a Write-in Response | 28 | 26.29(11.46) .83 |
23.92(11.94) .81 |
26.53(13.24) .93 |
23.33(11.29) .86 |
Write-in Response subgroups: | |||||
Queer | 5 | 26.72(18.86) | 27.43(17.98) | 33.44(19.58) | 20.62(18.53) |
Questioning | 5 | 27.12(9.23) | 25.18(11.80) | 27.50(10.63) | 22.33(10.13) |
Unspecified | 8 | 23.00(8.91) | 16.71(9.86) | 19.38(11.24) | 21.52(8.33) |
Pansexual | 2 | 33.63(7.97) | 31.76(6.73) | 29.07(5.76) | 36.00(8.49) |
Additional Identitiesa | 8 | 27.01(9.93) | 24.85(8.19) | 27.38(10.98) | 24.52(8.02) |
Note:
Additional identities = Asexual (1), Mostly Women (1), Free Love (1), Continuum (1), Mainly Men (1), Choose Not to Define (1), Open (1), Sexual (1).
LSAS = Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale Self-Report; α= Cronbach’s alpha value
Unspecified = individuals who selected the write-in response category but did not write in an identity label