Parental Reports of Stigma Associated with Child’s Disorder of Sex Development

Table 6

Correlation of reported stigma by mothers and fathers with child’s genital atypicality at birth.

	Genital atypicality at birth
	Children reared as girls		Children reared as boys
	Mothers
Total stigma score	−0.27	.09	0.38	.005^*
Scales
Child-focused	−0.14	ns	0.41	.003^*
Parent-focused	−0.28	ns	0.31	.030
Subscales
Perceptions	−0.26	ns	0.34	.010
Future worries	−0.24	ns	0.45	.001^*
Feelings	−0.19	ns	0.27	.050
Fathers
Total stigma score	−0.56	.003^*	0.49	.005^*
Scales
Child-focused	−0.53	.006^*	0.42	.020
Parent-focused	−0.38	ns	0.47	.008^*
Subscales
Perceptions	−0.50	.009^*	0.42	.020
Future worries	−0.44	.030	0.12	ns
Feelings	−0.28	ns	0.31	ns

Denoting P values that remain statistically significant after set-wise Bonferroni correction (or that are <.05 when correction not needed).