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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Soc Pers Relat. 2011 Nov 6;28(7):1005–1023. doi: 10.1177/0265407510397984

Table 1.

Summary of linear mixed-effects model for selected variables predicting the receipt of verbal aggression from a partner for women (n = 213) and men (n = 132)

Selected variables Women Men
Individual level: B (SE) B (SE)
Age −.12 (.09) −.50 (.11)***
Personal income .27 (.20) −.02 (.09)
Education .11 (.10) −.19 (.13)
Race .28 (.18) 1.60 (.61)**
Receipt of welfare −.36 (.28) .20 (.56)
Work status 1.33 (.47)**
Whether respondent stays home or not −.95 (.29)**
Perceived self-attractiveness .36 (.21)
Depression .22 (.08)**
Self-esteem −.52 (.09)***
Loneliness −.38 (.09)***
Life satisfaction −.43 (.20)*
Perceived alternative for potential mates −.27 (.08)***
Relationship level:
Perceived social support −.14 (.09) −.12 (.12)
Whether partner’s race is the same as respondent’s −.79 (.28)** −1.27 (.34)***
Happy with partner’s earning .35 (.23)
Importance of relationship −.31 (.11)**
Contextual indicators:
Perceived neighborhood cohesion −.14 (.09) −.43 (.10)***
Perceived neighborhood crime −.33 (.11)** .53 (.16)**
Perceived neighborhood unemployment .43 (.09)***
City-level percentage of people below poverty −.61 (.17)***
City-level average sex ratio .26 (.16) .47 (.19)*
Interactions by race:
Race × city-level average sex ratio −.59 (.19)**
Race × income −.54 (.20)**
Race × social support .79 (.18)***
Race × perceived neighborhood crime .50 (.15)***
Race × life satisfaction .69 (.25)**
Race × happy with partner’s earning −.57 (.26)*
Race × work status −1.86 (.65)**
Race × perceived self-attractiveness −.93 (.30)**
Intercept .81 (.16)*** −.15 (.46)
Df 35 25
P <.0001 .74
*

p<.05;

**

p<.01;

***

p<.001