Table 3.

Prevalence and Frequency of Aggression in the First and Second Year After BCT for Relapsed versus Remitted Female Patients with Alcoholism and Their Male Partners.

Aggression Measure	Relapsed Patients Year 1 (N =50)	Remitted Patients Year 1 (N =41)	Relapsed Patients Year 2 (N =44)	Remitted Patients Year 2 (N =42)
Female to Male Aggression
Prevalence of Aggression - %
Elevated Verbal Aggression	60.0	46.3	48.9	39.0
Overall Violence	38.0 a	22.0	28.9	19.5
Severe Violence	26.0 a	9.8	20.0	7.3
Frequency of Aggression - M (SD)
Verbal Aggression	36.86 a (32.01)	23.93 (25.62)	32.18 a (34.14)	17.55 (22.56)
Overall Violence	3.50 a (9.15)	0.80 (2.26)	2.84 a (6.21)	0.74 (2.54)
Severe Violence	1.40 a (4.43)	0.22 (0.76)	0.91 (2.77)	0.24 (1.12)
Male to Female Aggression
Prevalence of Aggression - %
Elevated Verbal Aggression	54.0	43.9 b	40.0 a	31.7
Overall Violence	46.0 a	24.4	20.0	12.2
Severe Violence	20.0	9.8	11.1	4.9
Frequency of Aggression - M (SD)
Verbal Aggression	32.54 a (31.01)	23.22 b (28.00)	27.68 (33.23)	18.00 (25.90)
Overall Violence	2.96 (7.52)	1.49 (7.33)	4.80 (16.36)	0.52 (2.12)
Severe Violence	0.78 (1.97)	0.80 (4.53)	0.91 (3.59)	0.02 (0.15)

Note. Aggression scores are higher of female and male report in each couple. Comparisons between remitted and relapses groups controlled for baseline scores. An expanded table with scores of nonalcoholic sample couples matched to the remitted alcoholic sample, on which comparisons with the alcoholic sample were based, is available on request.

^aCouples in which female patients were relapsed had significantly greater aggression on this measure than their remitted counterparts at this same time period. Statistical test values follow.

For prevalence of aggression, values of improvement χ² (df = 1, N = 91 for yr-1 and 86 for yr-2) in the logistic regressions conducted for female (F)- and male (M)-perpetrated aggression were: (a) elevated verbal aggression = 0.61, p = .44, β=0.36, S.E.=0.47, r=.09 (F yr-1); 2.94, p = .09, β=0.77, S.E.=0.46, r=.18 (F yr-2); 1.50, p =.22, β=0.59, S.E.=0.49, r=.13 (M yr-1); 5.03, p <.05, β=1.09, S.E.=0.50, r=.24 (M yr-2); (b) overall violence = 5.25, p <.05, β=1.18, S.E.=0.53, r=.24 (F yr-1); 1.44, p = .23, β=0.63, S.E.=0.53, r=.13 (F yr-2); 4.12, p < .05, β=1.04, S.E.=0.52, r=.22 (M yr-1); 0.79, p = .38, β=0.54, S.E.=0.62, r=.10 (M yr-2); and (c) severe violence = 4.91, p < .05, β=1.41, S.E.=0.67, r=.23 (F yr-1); 3.45, p =.06, β=1.25, S.E.=0.72, r=.20 (F yr-2); 1.07, p =.30 β=0.68, S.E.=0.67, r=.11 (M yr-1); 0.96, p = .33, β=0.82, S.E.=0.87, r=.11 (M yr-2).

For frequency of aggression, values of F (df =1, 91 for yr-1 and 1, 86 for yr-2) in the ANCOVA's conducted for male (M)- and female (F)- perpetrated aggression were: (a) verbal aggression = 12.32, p = .001, r=.36 (F yr-1); 6.23, p < .05, r=.26 (F yr-2); 5.43, p = .02, r=.24 (M yr-1); 3.53, p = .06, r=.20 (M yr-2); (b) overall violence = 6.98, p =.01, r=.28 (F yr-1); 4.63, p < .05, r=.23 (F yr-2); 0.92, p = .34, r=.09 (M yr-1); 3.14, p = .08, r=.19 (M yr-2); and (c) severe violence = 5.29, p < .05, r=.25 (F yr-1); 2.06, p = .16, r=.15 (F yr-2); 0.00, p = .97, r=.00 (M yr-1); 2.69, p =.11, r=.18 (M yr-2).

^bCouples in which female patients were remitted had significantly greater aggression on this measure than their respective counterparts in the matched nonalcoholic sample. Statistical test values follow for these comparisons of remitted patients with the nonalcoholic sample with p < .05. Results of nonsignificant comparisons are available upon request.

For prevalence of aggression, values of McNemar's chi-square test (df = 1, N = 41 for yr-1 and 42 for yr-2) for female (F)- and male (M) perpetrated aggression was elevated verbal aggression = 6.17, p = .01, r=.36 (M yr-1).

For frequency of aggression, values of paired sample t-test (2-tailed, df = 40 for yr-1 and 41 for yr-2) was verbal aggression = 2.61, p = .01, r=.25 (M yr-1);