Demographic characteristics of a cohort of rural married men by physical and emotional abuse status
| Characteristic | Physical abuse | Emotional abuse | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abuser, n (%) | Non-abuser, n (%) | p Value† | Abuser, n (%) | Non-abuser, n (%) | p Value† | |
| *Only three men were in the age group 18–24, so this group was combined with 25–34. | ||||||
| †p Values represent two sided t tests for continuous variables, Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables with any cell size less than 10, and χ2 tests for categorical variables with all cell sizes of 10 or above. | ||||||
| Age (years) | ||||||
| 18–34* | 15 (19.2) | 32 (6.5) | 29 (14.6) | 18 (4.9) | ||
| 35–44 | 31 (39.7) | 118 (23.9) | 70 (35.2) | 79 (21.3) | ||
| 45–54 | 13 (16.7) | 98 (19.8) | 40 (20.1) | 71 (19.1) | ||
| 55–64 | 9 (11.5) | 97 (19.6) | 26 (13.1) | 80 (21.6) | ||
| 65+ | 10 (12.8) | 149 (30.2) | <0.01 | 34 (17.1) | 123 (33.2) | <0.01 |
| Educational status | ||||||
| High school incomplete | 6 (7.7) | 57 (11.6) | 18 (9.1) | 45 (12.2) | ||
| High school | 32 (41.0) | 239 (48.6) | 80 (40.2) | 189 (51.2) | ||
| Some college or more | 40 (51.3) | 196 (39.8) | 0.15 | 101 (50.8) | 135 (36.6) | <0.01 |
| Household location | ||||||
| Farm | 26 (33.3) | 186 (37.7) | 60 (30.1) | 150 (40.4) | ||
| Rural non-farm | 20 (25.6) | 95 (19.2) | 40 (20.1) | 75 (20.2) | ||
| Town | 32 (41.0) | 213 (43.1) | 0.41 | 99 (49.8) | 146 (39.4) | 0.31 |
| Married | ||||||
| Yes | 72 (92.3) | 478 (96.8) | 189 (95.0) | 359 (96.8) | ||
| No | 6 (7.7) | 16 (3.2) | 0.10 | 10 (5.0) | 12 (3.2) | 0.29 |
| Average years married | 20.03 | 28.31 | <0.01 | 22.11 | 29.82 | <0.01 |
| Average age married | 24.83 | 26.20 | 0.017 | 25.73 | 26.13 | 0.63 |
| Children 0–9 | ||||||
| Yes | 32 (41.0) | 97 (19.6) | 64 (32.2) | 65 (17.5) | ||
| No | 46 (59.0) | 397 (80.4) | <0.01 | 135 (67.8) | 306 (82.5) | <0.01 |