Table 2. Personality characteristics of women victims of IPV compared to a control group.
| IPV group (n= 50) | Non-IPV group (n= 50) | ANCOVA: main effect of group controlling for education level | Scale reliability | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personality dimension | M | SE | M | SE | F | p | Partial η2 | Power | α |
| Novelty Seeking | 89.16 | 1.73 | 94.16 | 1.56 | 0.86 | .356 | .01 | .15 | .77 |
| Harm Avoidance* | 109.32 | 2.02 | 98.80 | 2.15 | 5.52 | .021 | .05 | .64 | .88 |
| Reward Dependence** | 97.38 | 1.81 | 105.34 | 1.31 | 7.52 | .007 | .07 | .78 | .78 |
| Persistence | 114.26 | 2.25 | 120.40 | 1.77 | 1.69 | .119 | .02 | .25 | .86 |
| Self-Directedness*** | 127.14 | 2.66 | 144.62 | 2.58 | 13.44 | <.001 | .12 | .95 | .91 |
| Cooperativeness | 132.82 | 2.04 | 140.66 | 1.85 | 3.53 | .063 | .04 | .46 | .86 |
| Self-Transcendence** | 82.70 | 1.61 | 77.86 | 1.42 | 7.90 | .006 | .08 | .80 | .78 |
Notes.
Main effect of education level (covariate) not presented in ANCOVA output.
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.
***
p < .001.