Table 1.
Demographic Characteristics: Male and Female Nursing and Non-Nursing Student Subsamples.
| Nursing students |
Non-nursing students |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| Sexual orientation | ||||
| Heterosexual | 84.6% | 92.1% | 87.6% | 82.2% |
| Lesbian | 0% | 1.2% | 0% | 1.8% |
| Gay | 9.3% | 0.0% | 6% | 0.2% |
| Bisexual | 3.7% | 4.7% | 3.8% | 10.1% |
| Self-identified | 6% | 0.9% | 1.4% | 3.1% |
| Questioning | 1.9% | 1.0% | 1.2% | 2.6% |
| Age | ||||
| Mean | 25.58 | 23.5 | 21.87 | 21.52 |
| Standard deviation | 8.91 | 5.14 | 5.10 | 5.14 |
| Race/Ethnicity | ||||
| African American/Black | 6.1% | 8.5% | 6% | 7.1% |
| American Indian/native | 4.3% | 2.2% | 1.8% | 2.1% |
| Asian American/Asian | 12.9% | 10.1% | 13.4% | 12.7% |
| Hispanic/Latino(a) | 10.4% | 5.7% | 7% | 8% |
| Native Hawaiian or Islander | 0.6% | 1.2% | 1% | 0.9% |
| Middle Eastern | 1.8% | 1.2% | 1.9% | 1.5% |
| White non-Hispanic | 71.2% | 77.7% | 76.6% | 76.7% |
| Self-identified | 1.8% | 1.1% | 2.3% | 1.7% |
| Current finances | ||||
| Always stressful | 12.4% | 14.1% | 8.5% | 14.1% |
| Often stressful | 28% | 25.4% | 21.4% | 25.4% |
| Sometimes stressful | 37.3% | 35.7% | 36.8% | 35.7% |
| Rarely stressful | 16.8% | 18.5% | 24% | 18.5% |
| Never stressful | 5.6% | 6.4% | 9.4% | 6.4% |
Note. Nursing Students (N = 1,399), male-identified (n = 158), female-identified (n = 1,241). Non-Nursing Students (N = 16,913), male-identified (n = 5,550), female-identified (n = 11,363). Non-nursing fields were the following: humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, business, education, engineering, art, and undecided.