Prevalence and correlates of destructive behaviors in the US Naval Surface Forces from 2010–2020

Lai, Kevin; Jameson, Jason T.; Russell, Dale W.

doi:10.1186/s40359-023-01134-1

BMC Psychology

Table 1 Domestic violence: distribution of selected characteristics for the total sample and by demographics across the years

From: Prevalence and correlates of destructive behaviors in the US Naval Surface Forces from 2010–2020

	2010		2011		2012		2013		2014		2015		2016
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Offender
Gender	p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p < 0.05		p < 0.01		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p < 0.001
Female	70	16.91	117	19.31	104	20.16	97	22.66	84	19.27	100	19.65	116	25.49
Male	344	83.09	489	80.69	412	79.84	331	77.34	352	80.73	409	80.35	339	74.51
Other	0		1		3		2		4		1		6
Age	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.05
25 and under	213	54.34	306	56.46	223	46.95	186	45.81	195	48.51	236	50.00	181	41.90
26–30	100	25.51	121	22.32	145	30.53	109	26.85	103	25.62	128	27.12	124	28.70
31–35	42	10.71	68	12.55	62	13.05	60	14.78	62	15.42	55	11.65	58	13.43
36–40	26	6.63	26	4.80	36	7.58	39	9.61	29	7.21	33	6.99	44	10.19
41+	11	2.81	21	3.87	9	1.89	12	2.96	13	3.23	20	4.24	25	5.79
Other	22		65		44		24		38		38		29
Race	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
White	175	54.18	240	52.75	240	54.18	161	48.79	197	57.77	209	50.24	204	53.83
Black	148	45.82	215	47.25	203	45.82	169	51.21	144	42.23	207	49.76	175	46.17
Other	91		152		122		100		99		94		82
Rank	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
E1–E3	82	25.23	153	33.19	84	22.52	38	11.91	63	19.03	81	21.26	71	20.29
E4–E6	225	69.23	277	60.09	257	68.90	243	76.18	238	71.90	249	65.35	228	65.14
E7–E9	7	2.15	23	4.99	19	5.09	28	8.78	24	7.25	33	8.66	37	10.57
Officer/CWO	11	3.38	8	1.74	13	3.49	10	3.13	6	1.81	18	4.72	14	4.00
Other	89		146		146		111		109		129		111
Victim
Gender	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
Female	344	83.29	481	80.03	391	78.83	332	78.12	347	80.70	403	80.92	321	74.31
Male	69	16.71	120	19.97	105	21.17	93	21.88	83	19.30	95	19.08	111	25.69
Other	1		6		23		5		10		12		29
Age	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
25 and under	186	60.59	270	60.27	206	51.89	181	52.31	190	51.91	232	55.50	186	50.00
26–30	69	22.48	101	22.54	108	27.20	79	22.83	87	23.77	112	26.79	102	27.42
31–35	28	9.12	53	11.83	48	12.09	49	14.16	49	13.39	40	9.57	45	12.10
36–40	14	4.56	16	3.57	30	7.56	24	6.94	25	6.83	25	5.98	23	6.18
41+	10	3.26	8	1.79	5	1.26	13	3.76	15	4.10	9	2.15	16	4.30
Other	107		159		122		84		74		92		89
Race	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
White	143	63.00	197	54.87	189	55.26	156	53.98	173	57.67	189	53.24	192	57.14
Black	84	37.00	162	45.13	153	44.74	133	46.02	127	42.33	166	46.76	144	42.86
Other	187		248		177		141		140		155		125
Rank	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
E1–E3	50	36.76	81	35.37	45	8.67	38	23.46	31	20.39	58	30.53	45	26.16
E4–E6	79	58.09	142	62.01	134	25.82	118	72.84	109	71.71	122	64.21	114	66.28
E7–E9	6	4.41	2	0.87	9	1.73	4	2.47	9	5.92	8	4.21	6	3.49
Officer/CWO	1	0.74	4	1.75	0	0.00	2	1.23	3	1.97	2	1.05	7	4.07
Other	278		378		331		268		288		320		289

	2017		2018		2019		2020		Incidents total		Navy average demographics 2010–2020
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	%
Offender
Gender	p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p < 0.001
Female	89	20.99	90	21.13	79	18.72	82	21.58	1028	20.49	18.26
Male	335	79.01	336	78.87	343	81.28	298	78.42	3988	79.51	81.74
Other	4		16		10		11		58
Age	p < 0.05		p < 0.01		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
25 and under	166	42.13	179	43.77	197	52.25	168	48.41	2250	48.41	42.07
26–30	108	27.41	107	26.16	71	18.83	95	27.38	1211	26.05	23.06
31–35	60	15.23	67	16.38	70	18.57	50	14.41	654	14.07	15.21
36–40	43	10.91	42	10.27	26	6.90	28	8.07	372	8.00	10.86
41+	17	4.31	14	3.42	13	3.45	6	1.73	161	3.46	8.81
Other	34		33		55		44		426
Race	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
White	201	57.43	212	58.56	147	48.36	155	55.16	2095	53.20	78.06
Black	149	42.57	150	41.44	157	51.64	126	44.84	1843	46.80	21.94
Other	78		80		128		110		1136
Rank	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
E1–E3	67	19.88	56	16.05	90	26.47	81	26.21	866	22.35	22.57
E4–E6	217	64.39	257	73.64	210	61.76	195	63.11	2596	66.99	51.40
E7–E9	37	10.98	21	6.02	27	7.94	18	5.83	274	7.07	9.30
Officer/CWO	16	4.75	15	4.30	13	3.82	15	4.85	139	3.59	16.73
Other	91		93		92		82		1199
Victim
Gender	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
Female	317	81.49	310	76.54	307	79.53	295	82.17	3848	79.60	18.26
Male	72	18.51	95	23.46	79	20.47	64	17.83	986	20.40	81.74
Other	39		37		46		32		240
Age	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
25 and under	163	48.95	184	51.69	171	57.97	137	51.89	2106	53.97	42.07
26–30	92	27.63	91	25.56	60	20.34	76	28.79	977	25.04	23.06
31–35	41	12.31	40	11.24	37	12.54	29	10.98	459	11.76	15.21
36–40	29	8.71	30	8.43	21	7.12	17	6.44	254	6.51	10.86
41+	8	2.40	11	3.09	6	2.03	5	1.89	106	2.72	8.81
Other	95		86		137		127		1172
Race	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
White	186	62.63	189	60.97	115	50.44	116	58.00	1845	56.89	78.06
Black	111	37.37	121	39.03	113	49.56	84	42.00	1398	43.11	21.94
Other	131		132		204		191		1831
Rank	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
E1–E3	41	26.11	38	22.89	55	33.74	25	17.48	507	27.29	22.57
E4–E6	102	64.97	116	69.88	102	62.58	104	72.73	1242	66.85	51.40
E7–E9	10	6.37	9	5.42	4	2.45	4	2.80	71	3.82	9.30
Officer/CWO	4	2.55	3	1.81	2	1.23	10	6.99	38	2.05	16.73
Other	271		276		269		248		3216

Chi square test p value indicates whether the null hypothesis that there is no significant difference from the Navy population can be rejected

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