Table 1.

Characteristics of male study participants by intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002

Characteristic	IPV perpetrators (N = 323)		Nonperpetrators (N = 5,950)		χ2	df	p
	%a	SE	%a	SE
Predisposing factors
Race					13.94	2	<0.01
Non-Hispanic black	17.4	2.7	9.9	0.6
Hispanic	23.0	3.6	16.1	0.8
Non-Hispanic white	59.7	3.9	74.0	0.9
Age (years)					48.59	2	<0.01
18–25	21.6	2.3	9.6	0.3
26–34	38.1	4.3	29.1	0.8
35–49	40.3	4.2	61.4	0.9
Education					2.60	2	0.08
<High school	23.2	3.2	16.6	0.7
High school	28.9	3.3	33.5	0.9
Any college	47.9	4.2	49.9	1.0
Employment					5.28	1	<0.05
Unemployed	13.7	2.7	7.3	0.4
Employed	86.3	2.7	92.8	0.4
Enabling factors
Marital status					22.12	1	<0.01
Separated/divorced/never married	39.4	3.8	19.5	0.8
Married	60.6	3.8	80.5	0.8
Annual household income					16.07	3	<0.01
<$20,000	19.3	3.1	10.2	0.5
$20–39,000	28.5	3.3	21.6	0.8
$40–74,000	30.4	3.8	36.6	0.9
≥$75,000	21.9	3.9	31.6	0.9
Health insurance					15.53	2	<0.01
None	27.2	3.4	15.6	0.6
Government subsidized	6.0	1.6	3.4	0.3
Private/other	66.9	3.6	81.1	0.7
Social support					5.27	2	<0.01
0–1 friend	14.8	2.6	11.0	0.6
2–3 friends	40.9	4.0	30.6	0.9
4+ friends	44.3	4.2	58.5	0.9
Need factors
Binge drinking	49.0	3.8	39.0	0.9	6.28	1	<0.05
Heavy alcohol use	17.8	2.9	11.5	0.6	4.56	1	<0.05
Alcohol abuse/dependence	28.7	3.4	11.4	0.5	20.69	1	<0.01
Any illicit drug use	46.5	4.1	18.1	0.7	35.22	1	<0.01
Drug abuse/dependence	15.3	2.9	3.2	0.3	15.19	1	<0.01
Substance abuse treatment	2.7	1.0	0.7	0.2	3.82	1	0.05
Serious mental illnessb	16.8	2.8	5.0	0.4	16.22	1	<0.01

SE standard error

^aPercentages are weighted

^bSerious mental illness is defined by the K6 scale [31, 40]