. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 25.

Published in final edited form as: Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010 Dec;164(12):1118–1124. doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.229

Table 1.

Prevalence of DV Perpetration Acts by Sex

	% of Respondents
DV Act^a	All (N=1398)	Boys (n=653)	Girls (n=745)	P Value^b
(a) Had a yelling argument with him or her	55.9	47.5	63.2	<.001
(b) Swore or cursed at him or her or called him or her fat, ugly, stupid, or some other insult	42.8	32.2	52.2	<.001
(c) Threatened to hit, punch, kick, or hurt him or her	20.1	10.2	28.9	<.001
(d) Pushed, shoved, or slapped him or her	17.6	8.9	25.2	<.001
(e) Hit, punched, kicked, or choked him or her	9.9	5.1	14.1	<.001
Any perpetration of physical DV^c	18.7	9.6	26.6	<.001

Abbreviation: DV, dating violence.

The 1398 respondents were asked the number of times they had perpetrated each act toward someone they were dating in the past 30 days.

Calculated using the χ² statistic.

Composite variable that includes respondents who endorsed items d or e.