Table 1.
Husbands’ and wives’ IPV, marijuana use, antisocial behavior, and alcohol dependence at Wave 1 (n = 634 couples)
| Wives | Husbands | P-valueb | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | Mean | SD | Range | % Zero | % | Mean | SD | Range | % Zero |
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| Age | --- | 26.8 | 5.8 | 17, 50 | --- | --- | 28.7 | 6.3 | 18,69 | --- | < 0.001 |
| Race | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 0.617 | ||
| European American | 62.0 | 59.3 | |||||||||
| African American | 31.2 | 33.3 | |||||||||
| Other | 6.8 | 7.4 | |||||||||
| Education | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | < 0.05 | ||
| ≤ HS | 30.9 | 36.5 | |||||||||
| > HS | 69.1 | 63.5 | |||||||||
| Current employment | <0.001 | ||||||||||
| Unemployed | 24.8 | 10.6 | |||||||||
| Employed part or full time | 75.2 | 89.4 | |||||||||
| Income | --- | 2.8 | 1.5 | 1, 9 | --- | --- | 2.2 | 1.3 | 1, 9 | --- | < 0.001 |
| Frequency of IPV perpetration (times per year) | 4.0 | 13.7 | 0, 181 | 62.9 | 5.14 | 14.4 | 0, 147.5 | 52.9 | < 0.001 | ||
| Frequency of marijuana use (times per month)a | 0.23 | 0.81 | 0, 4 | 77.3 | 0.41 | 1.09 | 0,4 | 71.6 | < 0.01 | ||
| AB Checklist Score (lifetime behaviors) | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0, 2.8 | ---a | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0, 2.6 | ---a | < 0.001 | ||
| Alcohol Dependence Scale score (past year symptoms) | 2.5 | 3.4 | 0, 32 | 32.2 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 0, 36 | 26.0 | < 0.001 | ||
Note: AB = Antisocial Behavior, HS = High school, IPV = intimate partner violence.
a
Not applicable – non-count continuous variable
b
Significance for difference between husbands and wives calculated using chi-square tests for categorical variables, t-tests for continuous variables, and Wilcoxon rank sum tests for count variables.