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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Fam Violence. 2008 Apr 19;23(7):605–617. doi: 10.1007/s10896-008-9183-6

Table 3.

Unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios for the effect of childhood sexual abuse on intimate partner violence (IPV) in one’s lifetime and in the past 6 months (N=416)

Lifetime IPV OR (95% CI) Past 6 months IPV OR (95% CI)
Unadjusted models
 Childhood sexual abuse 2.48 (1.29, 4.77)** 1.64 (1.02, 2.64)*
Adjusted models
 Childhood sexual abuse 3.01 (1.50, 6.03)** 1.39 (0.81, 2.38)
 Age 0.97 (0.92, 1.03) 0.97 (0.93, 1.02)
Race/ethnicity
 White/Other (reference)
 Black/African American 1.68 (0.60, 4.66) 2.06 (0.94, 4.51)
 Latina/Hispanic 0.90 (0.37, 2.22) 0.90 (0.45, 1.82)
Legal marital status
 Single, never married (reference)
 Divorced or separated 0.67 (0.29, 1.55) 0.76 (0.38, 1.52)
 Widowed 0.54 (0.19, 1.53) 0.44 (0.19, 1.01)*
 Married 1.10 (0.40, 3.01) 0.62 (0.30, 1.29)
Education 1.06 (0.93, 1.22) 1.06 (0.95, 1.18)
Log of average annual income—past year 1.77 (1.11, 2.83)* 1.14 (0.79, 1.65)
More than 1 main partner 1.34 (0.66, 2.72)
Financial independence 0.33 (0.19, 0.58)***
Posttraumatic stress disorder 2.65 (1.24, 5.66)**
Overall psychological distress 2.43 (1.02, 5.78)*
Inject heroin 1.61 (0.57, 4.56)
Inject cocaine 1.51 (0.33, 7.00)
Smoke crack 1.15 (0.59, 2.25)
Inject speedball (heroin and cocaine) 0.24 (0.05, 1.29)
Smoke marijuana 1.21 (0.62, 2.39)
Consume 4 or more alcoholic drinks in a 6 hour period 0.75 (0.37, 1.49)
Use Valium, Ativan, Librium, Seconal, or other non-prescription tranquilizers, barbiturates, or hypnotics 1.15 (0.53, 2.51)
Social support 0.94 (0.53, 1.67)
HIV-positive status 1.23 (0.63, 2.41)
*

p≤0.05

**

p≤0.01

***

p<0.001