Table 4: Mental health and delinquency among FTO CINI sexual minority and non-sexual minority adolescents.
| Measure | Total sample (n=423) |
Sexual minorities (n=133) |
Non- sexual minorities (n=290) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X2 | p | ||||
| BASC-2, n (%) a | |||||
| Internalizing Problems | 61 (15.1) | 32 (24.8) | 29 (10.5) | 14.04 | .001 |
| Inattention/Hyperactivity | 64 (15.4) | 30 (22.7) | 34 (12.0) | 7.92 | .012 |
| Emotional Symptoms Index | 60 (14.9) | 35 (27.3) | 25 (9.1) | 23.12 | <.001 |
| Personal Adjustment | 37 (9.9) | 27 (21.1) | 10 (3.6) | 32.39 | <.001 |
| School Problems | 44 (10.8) | 18 (13.9) | 26 (9.4) | 1.85 | .266 |
| t(df) | p | ||||
| NYS-SRD general delinquency score, mean (SD) b | 2.1 (2.7) | 2.5 (2.9) | 1.9 (2.6) | −1.91 (408) | .112 |
Abbreviations: BASC-2, Behavior Assessment System for Children, Second Edition; NYS-SRD, National Youth Survey Self-Reported Delinquency
Bolded values indicate significant differences between sexual-minority and non-sexual-minorities, P<.05. The Benjamini-Hochberg procedure was applied to control the false-discovery rate at 5%. All variables in this table were derived from adolescent self-report.
Represents the percentage of adolescents whose BASC-2 subscale scores fall within the “clinical” range.
The published NYS-SRD subscale contains 24 items; however, due to an error in the survey-administration software, 1 item was inadvertently omitted ("Have you had sexual intercourse with a person who was not your serious partner when involved in a relationship?”) and therefore the score range for this study is 0-23.