Table 5.
Summary statistics for comparisons between women and men on overall IPV victimisation and impact
| Item | Lifetime | Ages 18–21 | ||||||||||
| Women | Men | Women | Men | |||||||||
| N | M (SD) or N (%) | N | M (SD) or N (%) | t(df) or χ2 | P value | N | M (SD) or N (%) | N | M (SD) or N (%) | t(df) or χ2 | P value | |
| Mean frequency of IPV experiences (SD) | 2128 | 0.28 (0.50) | 1145 | 0.12 (0.25) | 12.61 (3252.18) | <0.001 | 2128 | 0.19 (0.39) | 1145 | 0.10 (0.24) | 7.58 (3219.11) | <0.001 |
| Mean no of IPV acts experienced (SD) | 2024 | 1.41 (2.19) | 1096 | 0.60 (1.22) | 13.16 (3115.22) | <0.001 | 2014 | 0.75 (1.47) | 1092 | 0.42 (0.97) | 7.55 (2996.44) | <0.001 |
| Any IPV (N, %) | 2128 | 884 (41.54) | 1145 | 330 (28.82) | 51.62 | <0.001 | 2128 | 683 (32.10) | 1145 | 275 (24.02) | 23.47 | <0.001 |
| Any IPV with a negative impact (N, %) | 2126 | 788 (37.06) | 1144 | 236 (20.63) | 93.41 | <0.001 | 2126 | 608 (28.60) | 1145 | 200 (17.47) | 49.57 | <0.001 |
| Mean no of negative impacts of IPV (SD) | 800 | 4.39 (2.27) | 292 | 2.73 (2.21) | 10.75 (1090) | <0.001 | 746 | 3.21 (2.72) | 279 | 2.24 (2.24) | 5.77 (602.84) | <0.001 |
All t-tests were two-group t-tests with unequal variances, apart from ‘number of negative impacts of IPV’ for the overall sample, which did not have unequal variances between men and women (ie, Levene’s test was statistically non-significant).
IPV, intimate partner violence.