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Table 5 Sociodemographic and health variables of victims, conditional on class membership (N = 245)

From: Elder abuse victimization patterns: latent class analysis using perpetrators and abusive behaviours

 

Verbal by others (n = 70)

Psychological by children (n = 44)

Overlooked by others (N = 44)

Stolen by others (N = 38)

Verbal IPV (N = 35)

Physical and psychological IPV (N = 14)

p-value

Sex

Female

77.1

70.5

70.5

63.2

85.7

100.0

a

Male

22.9

29.5

29.5

36.8

14.3

0.00

 

Age group

60–69

52.9

52.3

50.0

42.1

65.7

64.3

<  0.05

70–79

41.4

22.7

34.1

29.0

25.7

28.6

 

80+

5.7

25.0

15.9

29.0

8.6

7.1

 

Civil Status

Single

11.4

0.0

4.6

7.9

0.0

0.0

a

Married/ Civil Union

57.1

54.6

52.3

52.6

79.4

57.1

 

Divorced/

Separated

10.0

6.8

6.8

2.6

14.7

7.1

 

Widow

21.4

38.6

36.4

36.8

5.9

35.7

 

Schooling

Up to 4 years

80.9

76. 2

83.3

75.0

77.1

100.0

a

5 or more years

19.1

23.8

16.7

25.0

22.9

0.0

 

Living arrangements

Alone

33.3

20.9

27.3

36.8

11.4

21.4

0.115

With others

66.7

79.1

72.7

63.2

88.6

78.6

 

Perceived social support

Plenty/ Enough

64.2

43.9

61.9

63.9

60.6

50.0

0.355

Few/No one

35.8

56.1

38.1

36.1

39.4

50.0

 

Chronic disease

Yes

81.4

86.4

77.3

86.8

77.1

85.7

0.789

No

18.6

13.6

22.7

13.2

22.9

14.3

 

AVD

Yes

24.3

20.5

9.1

29.0

14.3

14.3

0.213

No

75.7

79.6

90.9

71.0

85.7

85.7

 
  1. Note: a Due to cells frequencies count with zero, the association test wasn’t performed