Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics for the total sample, and by dating app user status
| Demographic variable | Statistics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dating app user (n = 310, 45.1%) |
Dating app non-user (n = 377, 54.9%) | Total (N = 687) |
t/χ2 | p | |
| Age (M ± SD) | 20.99 ± 4.92 | 22.30 ± 8.47 | 20.28 ± 4.63 | ||
| BMI (M ± SD) | 22.47 ± 3.66 | 22.01 ± 3.73 | 22.11 ± 4.33 | ||
| Gender (n, %) | 10.06 | 0.007 | |||
| Female | 222 (71.6%) | 307 (81.4%) | 529 (77%) | ||
| Male | 87 (28.1%) | 70 (18.6%) | 157 (22.9%) | ||
| Other | 1 (0.3%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (0.1%) | ||
| Ethnicity (n, %) | 24.01 | <0.001 | |||
| White | 152 (49%) | 131 (34.7%) | 285 (41.2%) | ||
| Eastern Asian | 71 (22.9%) | 140 (37.1%) | 212 (30.7%) | ||
| Southern Asian/Southeast Asian | 48 (15.5%) | 59 (15.6%) | 108 (15.6%) | ||
| Other | 39 (12.6%) | 47 (12.5%) | 86 (12.5%) | ||
| Highest education completed (n, %) | 19.96 | 0.006 | |||
| Year 12 or below | 220 (71%) | 305 (80.9%) | 525 (76.3%) | ||
| Certificate/diploma | 19 (6.1%) | 23 (6.1%) | 42 (6.1%) | ||
| Bachelor’s degree | 45 (14.5%) | 36 (9.5%) | 82 (11.9%) | ||
| Postgraduate degree | 26 (8%) | 13 (3.4%) | 39 (5.7%) | ||
| Current paid employment status (n, %) | 13.16 | <0.001 | |||
| Employed | 173 (55.8%) | 158 (41.9%) | 331 (48.2%) | ||
| Not employed | 137 (44.2%) | 219 (58.1%) | 356 (51.8%) | ||
| Main language spoken at home (n, %) | 18.94 | <0.001 | |||
| English | 233 (75.2%) | 224 (59.4%) | 458 (66.6%) | ||
| Other | 77 (24.8%) | 153 (40.6%) | 230 (33.4%) | ||
| Sexual orientation (n, %) | 13.97 | 0.003 | |||
| Heterosexual | 255 (82.3%) | 343 (91%) | 599 (87.1%) | ||
| Homosexual | 16 (5.2%) | 7 (1.9%) | 23 (3.3%) | ||
| Bisexual | 35 (11.3%) | 21 (5.6%) | 56 (8.1%) | ||
| Other | 4 (1.3%) | 6 (1.6%) | 10 (1.5%) | ||
| Marital status (n, %) | 5.43 | 0.246 | |||
| Married | 3 (0.9%) | 6 (1.6%) | 9 (1.3%) | ||
| De facto | 13 (4.2%) | 8 (2.1%) | 21 (3.1%) | ||
| Separated | 2 (0.6%) | 1 (0.2%) | 2 (0.3%) | ||
| Divorced | 1 (0.3%) | 1 (0.2%) | 2 (0.3%) | ||
| Never married | 291 (93.9%) | 361 (95.8%) | 654 (95.1%) | ||
| History of an eating disorder | |||||
| Yes | 42 (14.5%) | 31 (8.5%) | 73 (11.1%) | 5.92 | 0.017 |
| No | 248 (85.5%) | 335 (91.5%) | 583 (88.9%) | ||
Significant p values bolded
BMI Body Mass Index (kg/m2), M mean, SD standard deviation
t-test for continuous variables, chi-squared test for categorical variables