Table 2.
Mental Health Indicators by Current Gender Identity (2010): Comparing Gender Minority a and Non-Gender Minority b Female and Male Respondents.
| Gender Minority n=26 | Non-Gender Minority | Non-Gender Minority | Global Bivariate Statistical Comparisons* | Total Sample n=7831 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female n=5210 | Male n=2595 | |||||||
| Past-Week Symptom Scores | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | p-value | Mean (SD) | p-value | F-Value(df) | p-value | Mean (SD) |
| Depressive Symptoms | 10.7 (5.3) | 7.4 (4.7) | 0.0005 | 7.0 (4.5) | <0.0001 | 240.59 (2,7775) | <0.0001 | 7.3 (4.7) |
| Anxious Symptoms | 16.7 (9.2) | 14.6 (8.4) | 0.22 | 10.3 (7.3) | <0.0001 | 243.74 (2,7672) | <0.0001 | 13.2 (8.3) |
| Past-Week Clinical Elevations | % | % | p-value | % | p-value | χ2 (df) | p-value | % |
| Clinically Significant Depressive Distress c | ||||||||
| Yes (CESD-10 score ≥ 10) | 52.0 | 27.0 | 0.005 | 25.1 | 0.002 | 11.48 (2) | 0.003 | 26.4 |
| No | 48.0 | 73.0 | 74.9 | 73.6 | ||||
| Clinically Significant Anxious Distress d | ||||||||
| Yes (RCMAS score ≥ 75 percentile) | 37.5 | 31.2 | 0.51 | 15.2 | 0.003 | 227.93 (2) | <0.0001 | 26.0 |
| No | 62.5 | 68.8 | 84.8 | 74.0 | ||||
Gender Minority = Combined respondents who endorsed a cross-sex identity, transgender identity, and who indicated they do not identify as female, male, or transgender.
Non-Gender Minority = Concordant maternal-reported natal sex and current gender identity (i.e., female natal sex and female current gender identity, or male natal sex and male current gender identity).
Clinically significant depressive distress: Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CESD-10) score ≥ 10.
Clinically significant anxious distress: Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) Worry/Sensitivity Subscale score 75 percentile or above (score ≥ 18 within the GUTS sample, not a standardized population).
SD = Standard Deviation. Note: The total number of cases included in each bivariate global statistical comparison differed due to missing data. The number of cases included in each comparison is indicated in parentheses as degrees of freedom.
p-values are generated from bivariate analyses examining the overall global effect of gender identity (ANOVA and Fisher's exact tests). Pairwise comparisons were implemented using t-tests (equal variances) and Fisher's exact tests.