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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jan 15.
Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. 2021 Nov 29;41(1):76–84. doi: 10.1037/hea0001129

Table 2.

Factor correlations and standardized variance component influences on latent factors (first genetic model - Cholesky decomposition) in male and female twins and 95% confidence intervals

Males Females

1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Factor correlation
1. Sexual orientation 1.00 1.00
2. Psychosocial adversity .30 (.23, .35) 1.00 .35 (.31, .40) 1.00
3. Substance use .13 (.07, .19) .26 (.21, .31) 1.00 .24 (.19, .28) .28 (.24, .32) 1.00
4. Lifetime sexual partners .13 (.08, .18) .07 (.03, .11) .43 (.39, .47) 1.00 .09 (.05, .12) .12 (.09, .16) .54 (.51, .57) 1.00

Standardized variance component influences on factors
h2 .39 (.02, .61) .39 (.16, .59) .48 (.29, .70) .45 (.27, .61) .53 (.31, .63) .62 (.37, .71) .60 (.41, .74) .47 (.35, .60)
c2 .13 (.00, .45) .09 (.00, .28) .33 (.13, .50) .15 (.01, .30) .02 (.00, .21) .03 (.00, .24) .15 (.04, .31) .11 (.00, .22)
e2 .48 (.36, .63) .52 (.40, .63) .19 (.14, .25) .40 (.35, .46) .45 (.37, .53) .35 (.29, .42) .25 (.19, .32) .42 (.38, .46)

Variables Standardized
factor
loadings
As Cs Es Standardized
factor
loadings
As Cs Es

Sexual orientation 1.00 1.00
Depressive symptoms .52 (.47, .58) .00 (.00, .10) .05 (.00, .10) .43 (.37, .49) .50 (.47, .54) .03 (.03, .08) .00 (.00, .06) .46 (.42, .51)
Anxiety symptoms .54 (.49, .60) .08 (.00, .14) .00 (.00, .07) .38 (.32, .44) .51 (.48, .55) .09 (.02, .13) .00 (.00, .05) .40 (.35, .44)
ELA .13 (.11, .16) .46 (.10, .54) .06 (.02, .39) .34 (.29, .40) .16 (.14, .19) .20 (.09, .31) .33 (.23, .42) .30 (.27, .34)
IPV .08 (.06, .10) .20 (.06, .28) .00 (.00, .11) .72 (.65, .79) .14 (.11, .16) .16 (.06, .21) .00 (.00, .08) .71 (.66, .76)
Other illicit drug use .76 (.71, .82) .09 (.02, .16) .01 (.01, .05) .14 (.10, .19) .52 (.48, .57) .07 (.00, .18) .08 (.00, .17) .32 (.27, .36)
Alcohol use .27 (.24, .31) .28 (.13, .34) .01 (.00, .14) .44 (.38, .50) .34 (.31, .38) .27 (.15, .34) .02 (.00, .13) .36 (.32, .40)
Cannabis use .37 (.33, .40) .13 (.00, .25) .10 (.02, .21) .41 (.34, .48) .19 (.17, .22) .20 (.10, .28) .03 (.00, .11) .57 (.52, .63)
Lifetime sexual partners 1.00 1.00

Note. ELA = Early-Life Adversity, IPV = Intimate Partner Violence.

h2, c2, e2 = Standardized proportions contributed by additive genetic, shared and unique environmental factors, respectively to the variable variances (diagonals) and their covariances (off-diagonals).

As, Cs and Es = Standardized variable-specific additive genetic, shared and individual-specific influences.