Table 2.
Group Comparisons among Gay and Lesbian Individuals Concerning Minority Stressors and Intimate Partner Violence Attitudes
|
Variables
(M, SD) |
Total sample (N = 240) | Gay (n = 85) |
Lesbian (n = 155) |
t/U | Cohen’s d |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minority Stressors | |||||
| Internalized Homophobia | 17.72 (6.01) | 17.99 (5.22) | 17.57 (6.41) | 0.54 | – |
| Expectations of Rejection | 12.45 (4.52) | 11.21 (3.82) | 13.13 (4.75) | -3.41** | 0.45 |
| Satisfaction with Outness | 12.12 (4.98) | 11.18 (4.85) | 12.64 (4.99) | -2.19* | 0.30 |
| Concealment | 12.03 (5.09) | 12.60 (5.03) | 11.72 (5.11) | 1.29 | – |
| Sexual Minority Negative Events | 16.77 (10.95) | 20.40 (10.95) | 14.78 (10.47) | 3.91*** | 0.52 |
| IPV Subscales | |||||
| Abuse | 12.10 (4.22) | 12.85 (4.33) | 11.68 (4.12) | 2.06* | 0.28 |
| Control | 9.92 (3.66) | 9.81 (3.65) | 9.98 (3.68) | -0.34 | – |
| Violence | 4.93 (2.51) | 4.73 (2.49) | 5.04 (2.53) | 6119.50 | – |
***p < .001; ** p < .01; *p < .05
Mann-Whitney U test was conducted for violence due to the non-normal distribution of the data, while independent samples t-tests were performed for all other variables