Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics of Teen Choices and Comparison Participants^{^}

Variable		Teen Choices (n =1,389)	Comparison (n=1,216)	F (1, 2585)
		%	%
Gender	Female	53.3%	53.7%	0.00
	Male	46.7%	46.3%
Race/ethicity	White, non-Hispanic	82.2%	76.1%	0.05
	Other	17.8%	23.9%
Subsidized lunch	Yes	22.2%	23.4%	0.04
	No/don't know	77.8%	76.6%
Grade in school^^	Grade 9	26.7%	19.3%	4.41*
	Grade 10	21.2%	43.9%
	Grade 11	51.8%	36.7%
Dating partners past year	0	15.4%	15.5%	1.75
	1	28.1%	33.2%
	2	23.4%	24.0%
	3 or more	33.0%	27.2%
Current dating status	Dating	40.3%	36.7%	3.26
	Not dating	59.7%	63.3%
Sexual orientation	Straight	92.9%	92.1%	0.53
	Not straight/don't know	7.1%	7.9%
Stage of change for using skills	Pre-Action	59.5%	57.6%	0.50
	Action or Maintenance	40.5%	42.4%
Consistent skill use	Yes	12.8%	13.6%	0.37
	No	87.2%	86.4%
Reject dating violence attitues	Yes	39.2%	38.3%	0.03
	No	60.8%	61.7%
Emotional victimization past year	Yes	67.3%	65.3%	0.79
	No	32.7%	34.7%
Emotional perpetration past year	Yes	57.3%	54.9%	0.68
	No	42.7%	45.1%
Physical victimization past year	Yes	35.6%	31.8%	4.05*
	No	64.4%	68.2%
Physical perpetration past year	Yes	18.5%	16.4%	0.92
	No	81.5%	83.6%

^{^}All participants in the analysis sample were exposed to risk for dating violence: they had experienced or perpetrated emotional or physical dating violence in the year prior to the study, were current daters at baseline, or dated during the follow-up period.

^{^^}Three Intervention and one Comparison participant recorded their grade as “other.”

^*p <.05