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 2 Sexual assault: 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 < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
Female	3	1.24	5	1.54	8	2.03	16	3.64	7	1.38	10	2.00	18	3.22
Male	239	98.76	319	98.46	387	97.97	424	96.36	501	98.62	489	98.00	541	96.78
Other	12		9		4		33		14		26		24
Age	p > 0.05		p < 0.01		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
25 and under	93	52.54	110	53.40	157	55.09	196	60.68	188	51.65	203	55.46	255	59.58
26–30	36	20.34	38	18.45	54	18.95	56	17.34	91	25.00	70	19.13	90	21.03
31–35	20	11.30	34	16.50	33	11.58	48	14.86	46	12.64	48	13.11	43	10.05
36–40	17	9.60	16	7.77	24	8.42	14	4.33	24	6.59	28	7.65	30	7.01
41+	11	6.21	8	3.88	17	5.96	9	2.79	15	4.12	17	4.64	10	2.34
Other	77		127		114		150		158		159		155
Race	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
White	99	65.13	113	57.95	156	61.18	173	60.70	200	62.89	234	67.44	267	62.09
Black	53	34.87	82	42.05	99	38.82	112	39.30	118	37.11	113	32.56	163	37.91
Other	102		138		144		188		204		178		153
Rank	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.01		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
E1–E3	58	34.94	68	34.00	51	26.29	30	28.85	52	27.96	66	29.73	124	35.94
E4–E6	85	51.20	104	52.00	114	58.76	65	62.50	107	57.53	122	54.95	188	54.49
E7–E9	14	8.43	18	9.00	14	7.22	6	5.77	21	11.29	23	10.36	19	5.51
Officer/CWO	9	5.42	10	5.00	15	7.73	3	2.88	6	3.23	11	4.95	14	4.06
Other	88		133		205		369		336		303		238
Victim
Gender	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
Female	61	85.92	110	86.61	122	91.04	107	83.59	202	85.96	217	87.85	274	87.54
Male	10	14.08	17	13.39	12	8.96	21	16.41	33	14.04	30	12.15	39	12.46
Other	183		206		266		345		287		275		270
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	182	81.61	218	79.27	277	79.37	333	81.82	406	83.71	384	80.17	446	83.52
26–30	28	12.56	43	15.64	49	14.04	46	11.30	50	10.31	53	11.06	60	11.24
31–35	7	3.14	10	3.64	11	3.15	19	4.67	17	3.51	27	5.64	16	3.00
36–40	3	1.35	3	1.09	9	2.58	6	1.47	11	2.27	12	2.51	9	1.69
41+	3	1.35	1	0.36	3	0.86	3	0.74	1	0.21	3	0.63	3	0.56
Other	31		58		50		66		37		46		49
Race	p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p < 0.01
White	146	79.78	167	76.96	219	75.52	253	76.67	306	76.12	296	74.19	323	72.10
Black	37	20.22	50	23.04	71	24.48	77	23.33	96	23.88	103	25.81	125	27.90
Other	71		116		109		143		120		126		135
Rank	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
E1–E3	123	59.71	142	51.08	182	54.01	193	52.16	206	46.92	215	50.59	268	52.45
E4–E6	78	37.86	124	44.60	144	42.73	166	44.86	222	50.57	190	44.71	222	43.44
E7–E9	0	0.00	1	0.36	2	0.59	4	1.08	2	0.46	8	1.88	1	0.20
Officer/CWO	5	2.43	11	3.96	9	2.67	7	1.89	9	2.05	12	2.82	20	3.91
Other	48		55		62		103		83		100		72

	2017		2018		2019		2020		Incidents total		Navy average demographics 2010–2020
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	%
Offender
Gender	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
Female	37	6.48	21	3.49	33	5.28	16	2.93	174	3.28	18.26
Male	534	93.52	580	96.51	592	94.72	530	97.07	5136	96.72	81.74
Other	34		45		112		120		433
Age	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
25 and under	283	61.52	303	61.34	270	66.50	235	60.88	2293	58.87	42.07
26–30	101	21.96	102	20.65	72	17.73	73	18.91	783	20.10	23.06
31–35	49	10.65	47	9.51	33	8.13	42	10.88	443	11.37	15.21
36–40	17	3.70	25	5.06	19	4.68	27	6.99	241	6.19	10.86
41+	10	2.17	17	3.44	12	2.96	9	2.33	135	3.47	8.81
Other	145		152		331		280		1848
Race	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
White	307	70.41	332	71.24	226	61.08	174	62.37	2281	64.56	78.06
Black	129	29.59	134	28.76	144	38.92	105	37.63	1252	35.44	21.94
Other	169		180		367		387		2210
Rank	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
E1–E3	130	33.77	118	29.28	196	38.66	157	35.36	1050	33.27	22.57
E4–E6	222	57.66	249	61.79	269	53.06	248	55.86	1773	56.18	51.40
E7–E9	19	4.94	19	4.71	29	5.72	19	4.28	201	6.37	9.30
Officer/CWO	14	3.64	17	4.22	13	2.56	20	4.50	132	4.18	16.73
Other	220		243		230		222		2587
Victim
Gender	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
Female	249	81.64	235	84.53	289	83.05	227	82.85	2093	85.12	18.26
Male	56	18.36	43	15.47	59	16.95	47	17.15	366	14.88	81.74
Other	300		368		389		392		3284
Age	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
25 and under	458	81.64	465	79.49	514	83.85	430	79.93	4113	81.46	42.07
26–30	75	13.37	82	14.02	71	11.58	71	13.20	628	12.44	23.06
31–35	18	3.21	23	3.93	21	3.43	19	3.53	188	3.72	15.21
36–40	9	1.60	8	1.37	4	0.65	13	2.42	87	1.72	10.86
41+	1	0.18	7	1.20	3	0.49	5	0.93	33	0.65	8.81
Other	44		61		124		128		694
Race	p < 0.01		p > 0.05		p < 0.05		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
White	339	72.90	392	78.71	348	73.89	253	69.13	3042	74.76	78.06
Black	126	27.10	106	21.29	123	26.11	113	30.87	1027	25.24	21.94
Other	140		148		266		300		1674
Rank	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
E1–E3	222	44.76	262	48.88	311	51.07	283	52.70	2407	50.74	22.57
E4–E6	248	50.00	253	47.20	284	46.63	234	43.58	2165	45.64	51.40
E7–E9	5	1.01	4	0.75	2	0.33	7	1.30	36	0.76	9.30
Officer/CWO	21	4.23	17	3.17	12	1.97	13	2.42	136	2.87	16.73
Other	109		110		128		129		999

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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