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. 2020 Feb 7;17(3):1047. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17031047

Table 2.

Association of perceived unfavorable attitudes toward homosexuality and same-sex marriage from Taiwanese society, heterosexual friends, and family members with suicidal ideation in non-heterosexual participants.

Variables Suicidal Ideation
Wave 1 Wave 2
Model I Model II Model III Model IV
Wals χ2 OR 95% CI Wals χ2 OR 95% CI Wals χ2 OR 95% CI Wals χ2 OR 95% CI
Gender 2.743 0.800 0.614–1.042 3.157 0.789 0.607–1.025 0.302 1.098 0.787–1.530 0.421 1.116 0.801–1.556
Age 11.252 ** 0.966 0.946–0.986 10.889 ** 0.966 0.946–0.986 6.932 ** 0.967 0.943–.991 8.886 ** 0.963 0.939–0.987
Perceived unfavorable attitude toward homosexuality from
Taiwanese society 4.007 * 1.342 1.006–1.789 1.681 1.408 0.839–2.361
Heterosexual friends 7.950 ** 1.579 1.149–2.170 1.063 1.238 0.825–1.856
Family members 8.425 ** 1.563 1.156–2.113 0.189 1.083 0.756–1.552
Perceived unfavorable attitude toward same-sex marriage from
Taiwanese society 0.313 1.084 0.817–1.439 0.869 1.431 0.674–3.039
Heterosexual friends 3.311 1.349 0.977–1.862 5.836 * 1.588 1.091–2.312
Family members 4.935 * 1.384 1.039–1.844 1.277 0.812 0.565–1.166

CI: confidence interval; OR: odds ratio. *: p < 0.05; **: p < 0.01; ***: p < 0.001; The bold shows the significant associations between suicidal ideation and perceived unfavorable attitudes toward homosexuality and same-sex marriage in the Wave 1 and Wave 2 surveys.