The Sexual Double Standard and Adolescent Stigma: A Sociometric and Comparative Approach

Figures & data

Table 1. Descriptive statistics.

	M or %	SD
Peer Nomination Outcomes (school-standardized)
Received friendship nominations	.00	1.00
Peer dislike nominations	.00	1.00
Perceived popularity	.00	1.00
Focal Predictors
Number of sexual partners in the past 9 months	.16	.53
Female	53.8%
Controls
Age	14.75	1.50
Drinking	2.25	1.04
Fighting	1.52	.75
Early pubertal timing	15.3%

N = 1,175.

Table 2. Correlations between study variables, separately for girls (below the diagonal; N = 632) and boys (above the diagonal; N = 543).

	Friend	Dislike	Popular	SexPart	Age	Drink	Fight	EarlyPT
Received friendship nominations	–	−.06	.47	.07	−.04	.16	.05	.08
Peer dislike nominations	−.07	–	.19	.11	−.05	.05	.23	.07
Perceived popularity	.34	.27	–	.20	.01	.20	.17	.03
Number of sexual partners	−.08	.15	.13	–	.26	.30	.29	.17
Age	−.12	.05	−.06	.26	–	.54	−.01	.04
Drinking	.03	.10	.19	.38	.51	–	.16	.13
Fighting	.00	.20	.05	.09	−.04	.13	–	.17
Early pubertal timing	−.02	.09	.06	.00	.03	.05	.02	–

Figure 1. Predicted values for school-standardized friendship nominations.

Table 3. OLS regression models of received friendship nominations, peer dislike nominations, and perceived popularity (n = 1,175).

Predictors	Outcome: Received Friendship Nominations				Outcome: Peer Dislike Nominations				Outcome: Perceived Popularity
	Model 1		Model 2		Model 1		Model 2		Model 1		Model 2
	b	se	b	se	b	se	b	se	b	se	b	se
Sexual partners	−.03	(.06)	.10	(.08)	.16**	(.06)	.06	(.08)	.23***	(.06)	.26**	(.07)
Female	.17**	(.06)	.22***	(.06)	.08	(.06)	.05	(.06)	−.09	(.06)	−.08	(.06)
Female x Sexual partners			−.31**	(.11)			.23*	(.11)			−.06	(.11)
Controls
Age	−.12***	(.02)	−.12***	(.02)	−.02	(.02)	−.02	(.02)	−.12***	(.02)	−.12***	(.02)
Drinking	.19***	(.03)	.19***	(.03)	.03	(.03)	.03	(.03)	.23***	(.03)	.23***	(.03)
Fighting	−.01	(.04)	−.02	(.04)	.26***	(.04)	.27***	(.04)	.06	(.04)	.06	(.04)
Early PT	.06	(.08)	.04	(.08)	.15	(.08)	.16*	(.08)	.04	(.08)	.05	(.08)
Constant	1.23***	(.32)	1.23***	(.32)	−.21	(.32)	−.21	(.32)	1.21***	(.31)	1.21***	(.31)
R^2	.038		.044		.059		.075		.085		.082
F-test (Model 2 vs Model 1)			7.71**				4.32*				.34

OLS = ordinary least squares; *p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001.

Figure 2. Predicted values for school-standardized peer dislike nominations.