Table 1.
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Groups’ Differences on Sex-Related Attitudes and Personality Factors and Sexual Risk–Related Behaviors
| Sexual Risk and Safety Indicators | n | IPV Group
|
χ2 (df = 4)† | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Abuse | Controlling Behavior Only | Physical Abuse | Sexual Coercion | Physical Abuse and Sexual Coercion | |||
| Sex-related attitudes and personality factors: M (SD) | |||||||
| Nonmonogamy attitudes | 334 | 1.93a (.95) | 1.99b (1.12) | 2.16 (.94) | 2.11 (1.04) | 2.42a,b (.86) | 10.02* |
| Sexual sensation seeking | 334 | 1.26a,b (.69) | 1.45c (.61) | 1.43d (.70) | 1.69a (.70) | 1.77b,c,d (.86) | 22.54*** |
| Non-relationship-specific sexual behaviors | |||||||
| Lifetime sex partners: M (SD) | 318 | 8.60a (13.53) | 10.63b (19.03) | 10.98c (15.83) | 5.08a,b,c,d (6.80) | 17.15a,b,c,d (28.83) | 32.20*** |
| STI diagnosis ever: n (%) | 334 | 6 (6%) | 2 (3%)a | 7 (11%) | 1 (3%)b | 9 (16%)a,b | 10.09* |
| Transactional sex ever: n (%) | 334 | 10 (9%)a,b | 12 (18%) | 15 (23%)a | 7 (18%) | 15 (26%)b | 9.81* |
| Relationship-specific sexual behaviors: n (%) | |||||||
| Sexual partner concurrence | 301 | 20 (21%)a | 13 (21%)b | 19 (34%) | 10 (29%) | 25 (46%)a,b | 12.80* |
| Often or always uses a condom | 301 | 39 (42%)a | 32 (52%)b | 20 (35%) | 13 (37%) | 13 (24%)a,b | 10.20* |
| Discussed sexual history | 333 | 78 (73%) | 57 (85%) | 50 (77%) | 31 (82%) | 46 (82%) | 4.52 |
| Agreed to STI testing | 334 | 40 (37%) | 26 (39%) | 27 (42%) | 16 (42%) | 27 (47%) | 1.68 |
| Agreed to be monogamous | 334 | 77 (72%) | 56 (84%) | 51 (78%) | 33 (87%) | 45 (79%) | 5.39 |
| Discussed whether partner is on birth control | 334 | 81 (76%) | 51 (76%) | 45 (69%) | 33 (87%) | 44 (77%) | 4.38 |
Results of generalized linear model (GLM) testing.
p < .05;
p < .001; shared subscripts in a row denote IPV subgroups that differ significantly from one another at p < .05.