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. 2010 Aug;11(3):264–268.

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of involvement in nonreciprocal versus reciprocal dating violence.1

Adolescents who date (n=2,888)
No violence Any dating violence perpetration or victimization (n=1,158)

Nonreciprocal dating violence Reciprocal dating violence

Victimization Perpetration

n % n % n % n % P-value2
Participant’s sex
Boys 1378 47.9 242 49.8 55 11.3 189 38.9 <.0001
Girls 1500 52.1 130 22.8 153 26.8 287 50.4
Participant’s Race/ethnicity 0.8867
Hispanic 1257 44.5 163 33.7 99 20.5 221 45.8
Non-Hispanic African American 774 27.4 103 35.2 61 20.8 129 44.0
Non-Hispanic White 667 23.6 83 38.3 38 17.5 96 44.2
Non-Hispanic Other 127 4.5 17 34.7 8 16.3 24 49.0
Participant’s grade 0.7734
7th 821 28.6 103 36.2 52 18.3 129 45.4
9th 823 28.6 107 33.6 70 22.0 141 44.3
11/12th 1231 42.8 162 35.6 85 18.7 208 45.7
1

Missing non-reciprocal/reciprocal items: 97, n=1056.

2

Pearson’s Chi-Square test of association.