Table 1.
Racial and ethnic and sexual identity differences across study variables (N = 607).
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| Total Sample (N = 607) | White (n = 232) | African American (n = 225) | White vs. African American | Latina (n = 150) | White vs. Latina | Lesbian (n = 453) | Bisexual (n = 154) | Lesbian vs. Bisexual | |
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| Mean (SD)/N (%) | p-value | Mean (SD)/N (%) | p-value | Mean (SD)/N (%) | p-value | ||||
| Demographic/clinical characteristics | |||||||||
| Age (range 18–82) | 39.7 (14.2) | 42.9 (16.0) | 39.4 (13.1) | 0.01 | 35.3 (11.2) | <0.001* | 41.6 (14.2) | 34.1 (12.4) | <0.001* |
| Sexual identity | 0.53 | 0.30 | – | – | – | ||||
| Lesbian | 453 (74.6) | 178 (76.7) | 167 (74.2) | 108 (72.0) | |||||
| Bisexual | 154 (25.4) | 54 (23.3) | 59 (25.8) | 42 (28.0) | |||||
| Race and ethnicity | 0.58 | ||||||||
| White | 232 (38.2) | – | – | – | – | – | 178 (39.3) | 54 (35.0) | |
| African American | 225 (37.1) | 167 (36.9) | 58 (37.7) | ||||||
| Latina | 150 (24.7) | 108 (23.8) | 42 (27.3) | ||||||
| Education | <0.001* | <0.001* | <0.01 | ||||||
| High school or less | 122 (20.1) | 9 (3.9) | 77 (34.2) | 36 (24.0) | 76 (16.7) | 46 (29.9) | |||
| Some college | 196 (32.3) | 55 (23.7) | 87 (38.7) | 54 (36.0) | 148 (32.7) | 48 (31.2) | |||
| Bachelor’s degree | 128 (21.1) | 66 (28.5) | 34 (15.1) | 28 (18.7) | 101 (22.3) | 27 (17.5) | |||
| Graduate degree | 161 (26.5) | 102 (43.9) | 27 (12.0) | 32 (21.3) | 128 (28.3) | 33 (21.4) | |||
| Body mass index (range 16.3–58.2 kg/m2) | 29.1 (7.6) | 27.1 (7.4) | 31.8 (7.9) | <0.001* | 28.1 (6.3) | 0.19 | 29.3 (7.9) | 28.3 (6.8) | 0.18 |
| Psychosocial factors | |||||||||
| Past-year depression | 187 (30.8) | 72 (31.0) | 67 (29.8) | 0.77 | 48 (32.0) | 0.84 | 140 (30.9) | 47 (30.5) | 0.93 |
| Body dissatisfaction (range 0–36) | 13.3 (8.9) | 13.4 (9.7) | 13.5 (8.3) | 0.88 | 12.6 (8.2) | 0.37 | 13.3 (8.9) | 13.1 (8.8) | 0.74 |
| Count of types of childhood trauma | <0.001* | 0.02 | 0.24 | ||||||
| 0 | 129 (21.3) | 74 (31.9) | 24 (10.7) | 31 (20.7) | 91 (20.1) | 38 (24.7) | |||
| 1 | 231 (38.0) | 88 (37.9) | 85 (37.8) | 58 (38.7) | 169 (37.3) | 62 (40.3) | |||
| 2 | 207 (34.1) | 51 (22.0) | 105 (46.7) | 51 (34.0) | 159 (35.1) | 48 (31.1) | |||
| 3 | 40 (6.6) | 19 (8.2) | 11 (4.8) | 10 (6.6) | 34 (7.5) | 6 (3.9) | |||
| Sexual minority stressors | |||||||||
| Stigma consciousness in lesbian women (range 12–48) | 28.1 (5.9) | 28.6 (5.4) | 28.5 (6.0) | 0.93 | 26.9 (6.6) | 0.02 | – | – | – |
| Stigma consciousness in bisexual women (range 11–51) | 27.7 (8.6) | 29.1 (8.7) | 27.7 (7.8) | 0.42 | 26.1 (9.5) | 0.11 | – | – | – |
| Internalized homophobia (range 10–38) | 14.7 (5.4) | 13.9 (4.6) | 15.1 (5.6) | 0.02 | 15.2 (6.0) | 0.02 | 13.7 (4.7) | 17.3 (6.1) | <0.001* |
| Sexual orientation-based discrimination | 0.80 | 0.20 | 0.42 | ||||||
| 0 | 392 (64.6) | 145 (62.5) | 147 (65.3) | 100 (66.7) | 285 (62.9) | 107 (69.5) | |||
| 1–2 | 169 (27.7) | 65 (28.0) | 60 (26.7) | 44 (29.3) | 130 (28.7) | 39 (25.3) | |||
| 3–4 | 39 (6.4) | 19 (8.2) | 14 (6.2) | 6 (4.0) | 32 (7.1) | 7 (4.6) | |||
| 5–6 | 7 (1.1) | 3 (1.3) | 4 (1.8) | 0 (0.0) | 6 (1.3) | 1 (0.6) | |||
| Eating behaviors | |||||||||
| Overeating | 106 (17.5) | 39 (16.8) | 38 (16.9) | 0.98 | 29 (19.3) | 0.53 | 77 (17.0) | 29 (18.8) | 0.61 |
| Binge eating | 56 (9.2) | 27 (11.6) | 16 (7.1) | 0.10 | 13 (8.7) | 0.35 | 42 (9.3) | 14 (9.1) | 0.95 |
Note. Stigma consciousness for lesbian and bisexual women were measured with separate scales with a different number of items. Unstandardized stigma consciousness scores are presented for lesbian and bisexual women.
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p < 0.001.