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Table 2 Prevalence of child maltreatment and adult IPV among individuals with and without harsh physical punishment in childhood

From: The relationships between harsh physical punishment and child maltreatment in childhood and intimate partner violence in adulthood

 

No harsh physical punishment (pushing, grabbing, shoving, hitting, and/or slapping)

n (%)

Harsh physical punishment (pushing, grabbing, shoving, hitting, and/or slapping)

n (%)

Child maltreatment

 Emotional abuse

  n (%)

638 (2.1)

2268 (36.8)

 Sexual abuse

  n (%)

2248 (7.4)

1602 (25.0)

 Physical neglect

  n (%)

5411 (18.6)

3133 (51.6)

 Emotional neglect

  n (%)

1892 (6.2)

1509 (24.6)

 Physical abuse

  n (%)

256 (0.8)

2451 (39.0)

 Exposure to IPV

  

  n (%)

1748 (5.5)

2061 (32.9)

 Any child maltreatment

  n (%)

8838 (30.1)

4754 (78.2)

Intimate partner violence (IPV)

 No IPV

  n (%)

19,359 (93.6)

3982 (86.1)

 Perpetration only

  n (%)

456 (1.8)

191 (3.5)

 Victimization only

  n (%)

397 (1.8)

185 (3.8)

 Both perpetration and victimization

  

  n (%)

664 (2.8)

368 (6.7)

  1. All n’s were unweighted. All percents were weighted