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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 24.
Published in final edited form as: Public Health Nurs. 2009 Nov-Dec;26(6):489–499. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2009.00808.x

Table 1.

Prevalence of Relational Aggression and Adverse Psychosocial and Physical Health Symptoms by Gender

Variables Males (n = 76) (%) Females (n = 109) (%) Overall (n = 185) (%)
Relational aggression
    Perpetration-overall 17.1 16.5 16.8
    Victimization-overall* 26.3 12.8 18.4
    Perpetration only 2.6 9.2 6.5
    Victimization only 11.8 5.5 8.1
    Both perpetration and victimization 14.5 7.3 10.3
    Neither perpetration nor victimization 71.1 78.0 75.1
Psychosocial symptoms
    Internalizing 25.0 21.1 22.7
    Externalizing 18.4 14.7 16.2
    Attention 3.9 6.4 5.3
Physical health symptoms
    Colds/flu
        Never/sometimes 89.5 86.3 87.6
        Always 10.5 13.8 12.4
    Headache
        Never/sometimes 88.2 66.1 75.1
        Always** 11.8 33.9 24.9
    Stomach ache
        Never/sometimes 86.9 74.3 79.5
        Always 13.2 25.7 20.5

Note.

*

p ≤ .05,

**

p ≤ .01.