TABLE 2.
Proportion of Youth Endorsing Teen Dating Violence Perpetration and Victimization by Gender
| Outcome | 0 vs 1 or more | P | 0–1 vs≥2 | P | 0–2 vs≥3 | P | |||
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| Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | ||||
| Self-defense | 17.3 | 18.7 | .57 | 7.0 | 6.9 | .29 | 4.3 | 3.6 | .13 |
| Perpetration | |||||||||
| Controlling | 70.7 | 70.4 | .85 | 52.8 | 52.6 | .91 | 41.7 | 38.5 | .27 |
| Psychological | 44.7 | 65.9 | .001 | 29.5 | 46.8 | .001 | 19.7 | 31.3 | .001 |
| Physical | 12.0 | 21.9 | .001 | 7.0 | 14.1 | .001 | 4.8 | 8.2 | .03 |
| Sexual | 24.5 | 15.0 | .001 | 13.3 | 8.7 | .01 | 8.3 | 4.5 | .009 |
| Fear | 13.1 | 12.4 | .73 | 9.3 | 6.6 | .10 | 4.3 | 2.8 | .17 |
| Injury | 16.9 | 15.4 | .51 | 10.6 | 9.4 | .52 | 7.5 | 5.0 | .08 |
| Victimization | |||||||||
| Controlling | 77.6 | 76.6 | .64 | 64.7 | 62.0 | .34 | 51.6 | 49.8 | .54 |
| Psychological | 54.3 | 65.3 | .001 | 39.8 | 47.2 | .02 | 29.4 | 33.5 | .17 |
| Physical | 24.0 | 17.8 | .01 | 15.5 | 12.0 | .10 | 10.7 | 7.6 | .08 |
| Sexual | 35.8 | 29.7 | .03 | 23.6 | 19.4 | .09 | 14.2 | 12.4 | .38 |
| Fear | 10.2 | 20.7 | .001 | 6.4 | 14.4 | .001 | 3.3 | 8.7 | .001 |
| Injury | 11.6 | 10.7 | .63 | 7.3 | 6.1 | .43 | 4.3 | 3.5 | .52 |
Values are expressed as %. P = significance of χ2 (df = 1).