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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Fam Stud. 2013 Feb 15;23(2):285–292. doi: 10.1007/s10826-013-9720-7

Table 1.

Direct Effects of Witnessing Verbal Interparental Aggression and Sexual Activity Among African American Youth (N =563)

Dependent variable Independent variable Effect
Estimate
(OR or OLS
regression
coefficient)
95% CI

PTSD Symptoms VIPA – moderate 1.11 −0.54, 2.75
(continuous) VIPA – high 2.22 0.52, 3.92*
Age 0.10 −0.48, 0.67
Male gender −2.04 −3.26, −0.81**

Withdrawal/Depression VIPA – moderate 0.04 −0.61, 0.70
(continuous) VIPA – high 0.71 0.04, 1.39*
Age 0.03 −0.20, 0.26
Male gender −0.73 −1.22, −0.25**

Anxiety/Depression VIPA – moderate 0.98 0.15, 1.82*
(continuous) VIPA – high 1.58 0.71,
Age 0.06 2.44**
Male gender −2.15 −0.24, 0.35
−2.77, −1.52**

Aggression VIPA – moderate 1.61 0.51,
(continuous) VIPA – high 3.64 2.72**
Age 0.14 2.49,
Male gender −1.69 4.78**
−0.24, 0.53
−2.51, −0.86**

Sexual Activity VIPA – moderate 1.24 0.72, 2.14
(dichotomous: yes vs. VIPA – high 1.94 1.09, 3.46*
no) Age 1.95 1.59,
Male gender 1.75 2.40**
1.14,
2.68**

Sexual Activity Direct effects of VIPA and
(dichotomous: yes vs. covariates 1.09 0.61, 1.93
no) VIPA – moderate 1.45 0.78, 2.70
VIPA – high 2.03 1.64,
Age 1.85 2.52**
Male gender 1.17,
Direct effects of potential 1.03 2.94**
mediators 0.95
PTSD symptoms 0.91 0.99, 1.07
Withdrawal/Depression 1.14 0.85, 1.05
Anxiety/Depression 0.84, 0.99*
Aggression 1.07,
1.21**

Direct effect estimates are OLS regression coefficients for continuous outcomes and odds ratios from logistic regression for dichotomous outcomes.

**

p<0.01;

*

p<0.05;

p<0.10