Table 2.

Predicting the Adult Violence Classification of Men from their Combined Child and Adolescent Risk Group and their Childhood or Adolescent Protective Group Classification

	Means			Logistic Regression
	Violent (n = 96)	Non-viol (n = 276)	t-value	AOR	p
Prediction with childhood protective factors
Combined risk factors	0.83	0.48	5.11***	5.36***	.001
Combined protective factors	0.63	0.94	3.25***		ns
Interaction of risk and protective factors	0.78	0.35	3.29**		ns
			Logistic χ2 (1) = 19.6, p < .001
Prediction with adolescent protective factors
Combined risk factors	0.83	0.48	5.11***	10.4	.001
Combined protective factors	0.44	0.93	3.96***		ns
Interaction of risk and protective factors	0.27	0.41	1.48	0.31	.001
			Logistic χ2 (2) = 33.9, p < .001

Percent of adult violent men who were in each Risk/Protective group
Combined child and adolescent risk group	Childhood (age 8) protective group (Sum of childhood protective factors)				Adolescent (age 19) protective group (Sum of adolescent protective factors)
	0	1	2 or more	χ2(2)	0	1	2 or more	χ2(2)
No risk factors (n=87)	32	11	0	15.05**	8	13	8	0.56
At least one risk factor (n=124)	31	35	48	2.17	52	28	6	12.93**

Notes: Ns for t-tests range from 191 (combined risk factors, adolescent protective factors, interaction terms) to 372 (childhood protective factors). The logistic regressions were computed by forward stepwise entry with p<=.10 required for entry. AOR = adjusted odds ratio. V = violent. NV = non-violent. Chi squares in the bottom panel are tests of the null hypothesis that protective factors have no effect on whether a man ends up in the adult violent or non-violent group for men in the given risk group. N’s ranged from 82 (no risk factors) to 109 (at least one risk factor) across analyses.

^†p < .10.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.

^***p < .001.