Table 5. Summary comparison of apriori-hypothesis and findings.

Female students survey: South African Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges and universities (2018–2019).

	Hypothesis	Significant direct effects	Significant indirect effects	Specific indirect effect	Unstd Coef.	Std Coef	p-value
					(95% CI)
1	Childhood sexual abuse experience directly impacts SV experience and through risky sexual behaviour	√	√	SV← RB←CSA	0.03(0.01–0.04)	0.057	0.002
2	Other life trauma impacts SV experience through alcohol use, mental ill-health, and partner violence experience	-	√	SV ←MH←TRA	0.05(0.02–0.08)	0.033	0.004
				SV← RB← ALC← TRA	0.02(0.01–0.03)	0.014	0.001
				SV←MH← PV← TRA	0.02(0.01–0.04)	0.016	0.004
3	Alcohol use impacts SV experience through risky sexual behaviour	-	√	SV← RB ←ALC	0.09(0.05–0.12)	0.122	<0.001
4	Food insecurity impacts SV experience through mental ill-health	-	√	SV← MH ← FDI	0.04(0.02–0.06)	0.069	<0.001
5	Risky sexual behaviour impacts mental ill health through partner violence experience	-	√	MH ←PV ← RB	1.12(0.73–1.51)	0.159	<0.001
6	Other life trauma directly impacts mental ill-health and through partner violence	√	√	MH ←PV← TRA	0.58(0.29–0.87)	0.06	<0.001
7	Childhood SV experience directly impacts mental ill-health and through partner violence	√	√	MH←PV← CSA	0.35(0.24–0.45)	0.117	<0.001
8	Food insecurity impacts mental ill-health directly and through partner violence experience	√	√	MH← PV←FDI	0.17(0.06–0.27)	0.047	0.002
9	Childhood sexual abuse impacts partner violence experience directly and through risky sexual behaviour	√	√	PV← RB ← CSA	0.05(0.02–0.09)	0.054	0.002
10	Alcohol use directly impacts partner violence experience, and through risky sexual behaviour	√	√	PV← RB ← ALC	0.18(0.1–0.25)	0.116	<0.001
11	Other life trauma impacts partner violence experience directly, and through alcohol use	√	√	PV← ALC← TRA	0.06(0.02–0.09)	0.017	0.004
				PV ←RB ←ALC ←TRA	0.04(0.02–0.07)	0.013	0.001
12	Food insecurity impacts SV through risky sexual behaviour	-	-	-	-	-	-
13	Risky sexual behaviour impacts SV experience	√	-	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
14	Mental ill-health impacts SV	√	-	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

MH = Mental ill health; SV = Past year SV; RB = Risky sexual behaviour; PV = Partner violence and controlling behaviour; CSA = Childhood sexual abuse; TRA = Other life trauma; ALC = Harmful alcohol use; FDI = Food insecure Unstd Coef. = Unstandardised Coefficient; Std Coef. = Standardised Coefficient.