Table 3.

Inter-item tetrachoric correlations of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) among parents and adolescents

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
1. Emotional abuse	1.00	NA	NA	.64	NA	.81	.25	.29	.16	.32	.38	.30	.32	.32	.46	.31
2. Physical abuse	.70	1.00	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
3. Sexual abuse	.49	.46	1.00	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
4. Emotional neglect	.78	.50	.42	1.00	NA	.47	.32	.50	.18	.25	.28	.31	.31	.33	.39	.54
5. Physical neglect	.65	.49	.45	.68	1.00	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
6. Exposure to IPV	.66	.63	.50	.45	.60	1.00	.42	.35	.17	.42	.22	.32	.24	.42	.32	.19
7. Household substance abuse	.46	.39	.37	.30	.45	.63	1.00	.46	.40	.73	.13	.49	.34	.33	.18	.31
8. Household mental illness	.56	.39	.30	.30	.30	.44	.38	1.00	.42	.43	.23	.37	.45	.46	.29	.30
9. Parental separation or divorce	.42	.44	.41	.25	.42	.56	.48	.44	1.00	.43	.10	.31	.49	.38	.18	.27
10. Parental trouble with police	.49	.40	.41	.29	.54	.64	.69	.51	.60	1.00	.32	.59	.63	.50	.31	.18
11. Spanking	.56	.75	.32	.35	.33	.44	.19	.30	.30	.15	1.00	.13	.30	.19	.20	.17
12. Parental gambling	.39	.30	.22	.32	.33	.42	.49	.34	.37	.56	.16	1.00	.28	.28	.33	.30
13. Foster care or CPO contact	.56	.50	.35	.42	.46	.46	.34	.28	.54	.58	.29	.31	1.00	.43	.22	.14
14. Poverty	.47	.36	.36	.32	.52	.51	.38	.32	.50	.51	.25	.43	.38	1.00	.26	.19
15. Peer victimization	.46	.43	.32	.21	.29	.40	.21	.37	.29	.37	.34	.18	.30	.29	1.00	.35
16. Neighbourhood safety	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	1.00

Notes: Correlations among parents are displayed in the bottom-left section; Correlations among adolescents are displayed in the top-right section; For parents, CPO contact does not include foster care.

Abbreviations: IPV intimate partner violence, CPO child protective organization, NA not applicable