Table 2.
Chi-square tests of independence examining gender and age differences for categorical variables.
| Gender | Age % (n) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Male % (n) |
Female % (n) |
Gender- Diverse % (n) |
Test Statistic | p Value | Younger % (n) |
Older % (n) |
Test Statistic | p Value |
| Previous mental health diagnosis | 23.919 | 0.000 | 6.781 | 0.011 | |||||
| Yes | 31.2 (24) | 55.3 (140) | 81.5 (22) | 44.6 (75) | 58.4 (111) | ||||
| No | 68.8 (52) | 44.7 (113) | 18.5 (5) | 55.4 (93) | 41.6 (79) | ||||
| Perceived impact of COVID-19 | NA * | 0.009 | 2.887 | 0.256 | |||||
| Positive | 8.0 (6) | 5.5 (14) | 0 | 9 (5.2) | 11 (6.0) | ||||
| Negative | 74.7 (56) | 87.8 (224) | 100.0 (27) | 146 (83.9) | 162 (88.0) | ||||
| Neutral | 17.3 (13) | 6.7 (17) | 0 | 19 (10.9) | 11 (6.0) | ||||
| Hours of daily social media use | NA * | 0.005 | 12.139 | 0.007 | |||||
| 0–2 | 42.5 (31) | 25.7 (65) | 14.3 (4) | 21.6 (37) | 34.8 (64) | ||||
| 3–4 | 43.8 (32) | 47.8 (121) | 39.3 (11) | 46.8 (80) | 45.7 (84) | ||||
| 5–7 | 9.6 (7) | 16.6 (42) | 21.4 (6) | 17.5 (30) | 13.6 (25) | ||||
| 7+ | 4.1 (3) | 9.9 (25) | 25.0 (7) | 14.0 (24) | 6.0 (11) | ||||
| Used social media to support self | 31.716 | 0.000 | 5.593 | 0.019 | |||||
| Yes | 22.1 (15) | 34.8 (87) | 82.1 (23) | 42.4 (70) | 30.2 (55) | ||||
| No | 77.9 (53) | 65.2 (163) | 17.9 (5) | 57.6 (95) | 69.8 (127) | ||||
| Used social media to support others | 6.939 | 0.031 | 3.231 | 0.083 | |||||
| Yes | 41.8 (28) | 50.6 (124) | 71.4 (30) | 55.6 (90) | 45.8 (82) | ||||
| No | 58.2 (39) | 49.4 (121) | 28.6 (8) | 44.4 (72) | 54.2 (97) | ||||
* Fisher’s exact test was conducted due to small group sizes.