Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for the total study sample and by race/ethnicity. Source: Chicago Health and Life Experiences of Women Study

	Overall		White		Black		Latina		p value
	N = 612		N = 233		N = 225		N = 154
	%/M	SE	%/M	SE	%/M	SE	%/M	SE
Dependent variables
Victimization incidence	1.47	0.06	1.13	0.08	1.74	0.10	1.56	0.13	<.001
Discrimination incidence	1.67	0.10	1.53	0.15	1.84	0.19	1.61	0.19	.382
Internalized homophobia	4.67	0.22	3.99	0.30	5.18	0.38	4.94	0.46	.044
Stigma consciousness	− 0.01	0.02	0.04	0.03	0.01	0.03	− 0.13	0.05	.011
Independent variables
Gender
Masculinity	3.72	0.07	3.44	0.09	3.96	0.13	3.79	0.13	.003
Femininity	4.26	0.07	4.04	0.09	4.46	0.14	4.29	0.15	.043
Covariates
Sexual orientation
Lesbian	58.0%		54.9%		61.8%		57.1%		.119
Mostly lesbian	16.5%		20.6%		12.4%		16.2%
Bisexual	25.5%		24.5%		25.8%		26.6%
Age	39.17	0.57	41.80	1.04	39.20	0.87	35.14	0.92	<.001
Income
< $10,000	18.6%		9.9%		30.2%		14.9%		<.001
$10–30,000	20.1%		21.5%		22.2%		14.9%
$30–50,000	19.0%		15.5%		22.7%		18.8%
$50–75,000	15.9%		18.5%		10.7%		19.5%
$75–200,000	21.9%		32.2%		8.9%		25.3%
Missing	4.6%		2.6%		5.3%		6.5%
Education
HS Grad or less	20.4%		3.9%		34.2%		25.3%		<.001
Some college	32.2%		23.6%		39.6%		34.4%
College grad	47.4%		72.5%		26.2%		40.3%

SE standard error; Chi square tests were used for bivariate tests between categorical variables by race/ethnicity; One-way ANOVA tests were used for bivariate tests between continuous variable and race/ethnicity