Table 3.
Correlations Between Gay Community Stress and Other Study Variables (N = 937) (Study 1)
Variable | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. GCSS: Perceived Community Focus on Sex | -- | .57** | .69** | .52** | .87** | .01 | .19** | .21** | .18** | .17** | −.08* | .26** | |
2. GCSS: Perceived Community Focus on Status | -- | .71** | .51** | .81** | −.01 | .09** | .22** | .28** | .23** | −.16** | .30** | ||
3. GCSS: Perceived Community Competitiveness | -- | .57** | .92** | .01 | .14** | .23** | .28** | .20** | −.08* | .28** | |||
4. GCSS: Perceived Community Exclusion | -- | .73** | −.09** | .03 | .19** | .24** | .11** | −.14** | .21** | ||||
5. GCSS: Total | -- | −.01 | .15** | .25** | .29** | .21** | −.13** | .31** | |||||
6. Sexual orientation concealment | -- | .42** | .06 | .01 | .13** | .02 | −.06 | ||||||
7. Internalized homonegativity | -- | .28** | .31** | .24** | −.08* | .23** | |||||||
8. Rejection sensitivity | -- | .41** | .22** | −.10** | .23** | ||||||||
9. Discrimination | -- | .31** | −.17** | .34** | |||||||||
10. General life stress | - | −.19** | .54** | ||||||||||
11. Status | -- | −.25** | |||||||||||
12. Mental health symptoms | -- | ||||||||||||
Mean | 2.51 | 1.98 | 2.15 | 2.44 | 2.27 | 3.10 | 1.67 | 11.88 | 16.22 | 25.76 | .00 | .70 | |
SD | 1.08 | .98 | 1.00 | 1.19 | .89 | .85 | .74 | 7.82 | 5.96 | 7.92 | .63 | .73 |
p ≤ .05
p ≤ .01