Table 2.
| Both Parents (n = 51) | Mothers only (n = 27) | Fathers only (n = 4) | Neither parent (n = 43) | |||||||
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| Characteristic | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | F | p |
| Current Age, yearsa | 40.10 | 9.42 | 42.70 | 11.79 | 39.75 | 4.99 | 46.88* | 9.94 | 3.69 | .014 |
| Education, years | 14.61 | 2.86 | 14.85 | 3.26 | 14.00 | 6.32 | 13.81 | 3.25 | 0.73 | .536 |
| Age of Disclosure | ||||||||||
| Mother, years | 21.61 | 6.01 | 19.15 | 8.18 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2.29 | .134 |
| Father, years | 21.76 | 6.16 | -- | -- | 21.50 | 10.15 | -- | -- | 0.01 | .937 |
| Americanism | 3.05 | 0.76 | 3.27b | 0.60 | 2.61 | 1.16 | 2.78 | 0.75b | 2.81 | .043 |
| Mother Reaction | 2.09 | 0.79 | 2.08 | 0.61 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 0.01 | .990 |
| Father Reaction | 2.13 | 0.78 | -- | -- | 2.68 | 0.77 | -- | -- | 0.55 | .647 |
| Depression | 15.73 | 11.83 | 14.95 | 11.07 | 21.50 | 10.02 | 14.95 | 11.07 | 0.86 | .465 |
| Safer Sex Behaviors | 70.53 | 10.22 | 71.71 | 12.74 | 72.60 | 14.61 | 73.22 | 10.88 | 0.44 | .723 |
Note.
a
Age: Disclosed to Neither parent was significantly different from Out to Both Parents.
b
Significant differences using Tukey s HSD post-hoc test.