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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Public Health. 2012 Nov 15;103(1):70–72. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300797

Table 1.

Sample Demographics, Perceived Experiences of Stigmatization in Diverse Social Contexts, suicidal Ideation, and Suicidal Attempts, Separately for Girls and Boys

Girls
N = 168
Boys
N = 106
Total
N = 274
Χ2/F P
Age .66 .418
M 16.80 16.72 16.77
SD .81 .79 .80
Education 2.86 .239
 Vocational education 22 (13.1 %) 22 (20.8 %) 044 (16.1 %)
 Higher intermediate education 59 (35.1 %) 35 (33.0 %) 094 (34.3 %)
 Pre-university education 87 (51.8 %) 49 (46.2 %) 136 (49.6 %)
Ethnicity 8.16 .004
 Dutch/Western 164 (97.6 %) 94 (89.5 %) 258 (94.5 %)
 Non-Western 004 (02.4 %) 11 (10.5 %) 015 (05.5%)
Experienced stigmatization by parents .81 .368
M 1.25 1.19 1.23
SD .60 .46 .55
Experienced stigmatization by other family
members (outside the nuclear family)
.59 .443
M 1.13 1.09 1.12
SD .42 .33 .38
Experienced stigmatization in school context 8.95 .003
M 1.54 1.81 1.64
SD .70 .81 .75
Experienced stigmatization in neighborhood
12.15 .001
M 1.35 1.63 1.46
SD .56 .72 .64
Suicidal ideation .19 .661
 No (n, %) 059 (35.1 %) 40 (37.7 %) 99 (36.1 %)
 Yes (n, %) 109 (64.9 %) 66 (62.3 %) 175 (63.9 %)
Suicide attempts 2.85 .092
 No (n, %) 142 (84.5 %) 97 (91.5 %) 239 (87.2 %)
 Yes (n, %) 026 (15.5 %) 09 (08.5 %) 035 (12.8 %)