Table 4.
Results of the Logistic Regression Models Predicting Physical Abuse.
| Physical Abuse Past Year |
Physical Abuse Lifetime | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nagelkerke R2 = .02 |
Nagelkerke R2 = .02 | |||||||
| B | SE | p | Odds Ratio | B | SE | p | Odds Ratio | |
| Age | −.07 | .05 | .122 | 0.93 | .07 | .04 | .070 | 1.07 |
| Gender | .38 | .13 | .003 | 1.46* | .38 | .10 | .000 | 1.46* |
| Ethnic minority | −.27 | .22 | .216 | 0.77 | −.38 | .17 | .021 | 0.68 |
| Number of children in family | .03 | .31 | .931 | 1.03 | −.03 | .25 | .914 | 0.97 |
| Single parenta | −.06 | .24 | .816 | 0.94 | .03 | .20 | .875 | 1.03 |
| Parental unemployment | .01 | .15 | .969 | 1.01 | −.02 | .12 | .862 | 0.98 |
| Low social economic status | −.01 | .01 | .398 | 0.99 | .00 | .01 | .840 | 1.00 |
| Father war veteran | .01 | .15 | .944 | 1.01 | −.02 | .12 | .861 | 0.98 |
Note. Gender (0 = girls, 1 = boys).
a
Single parent families vs. two-parent families; we also conducted the logistic regression with single parent versus all other families and the results are similar (physical abuse past year: odds ratio = 1.04, p = .872; physical abuse lifetime: odds ratio = 1.14, p = .528).
*
p < .01.