Frequencies and percentages of the relationship between mothers’ response to victimisation questions and fathers’ response to perpetration questions of intimate partner violence (IPV) and mothers’ response to perpetration questions and fathers’ response to victimisation of IPV by the three major maternal ethnic groups (585 couples) together with Fisher’s exact test p Value testing the distributions between groups
| Mother a victim, father a perpetrator | Mother a victim, father not a perpetrator | Mother not a victim, father a perpetrator | Mother not a victim, father not a perpetrator | Fisher’s p Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verbal aggression | <0.001 | ||||
| Samoan | 264 (75) | 12 (3) | 71 (20) | 4 (1) | |
| Tongan | 94 (65) | 42 (29) | 4 (3) | 4 (3) | |
| Cook Island Maori | 77 (86) | 6 (7) | 7 (8) | 0 (0) | |
| Any physical violence | <0.001 | ||||
| Samoan | 16 (5) | 100 (28) | 12 (3) | 223 (64) | |
| Tongan | 6 (4) | 8 (6) | 13 (9) | 117 (81) | |
| Cook Island Maori | 11 (12) | 22 (24) | 3 (3) | 54 (60) | |
| Severe physical violence | <0.001 | ||||
| Samoan | 4 (1) | 57 (16) | 4 (1) | 286 (81) | |
| Tongan | 1 (1) | 7 (5) | 6 (4) | 130 (90) | |
| Cook Island Maori | 4 (4) | 18 (20) | 2 (2) | 66 (73) |
| Mother a perpetrator, father a victim | Mother a perpetrator, father not a victim | Mother not a perpetrator, father a victim | Mother not a perpetrator, father not a victim | Fisher’s p Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Values are n (%). | |||||
| Verbal aggression | <0.001 | ||||
| Samoan | 275 (78) | 28 (8) | 43 (12) | 5 (1) | |
| Tongan | 95 (66) | 46 (32) | 2 (1) | 1 (1) | |
| Cook Island Maori | 77 (86) | 8 (9) | 5 (6) | 0 (0) | |
| Any physical violence | <0.001 | ||||
| Samoan | 13 (4) | 128 (36) | 7 (2) | 203 (58) | |
| Tongan | 8 (6) | 11 (8) | 5 (3) | 120 (83) | |
| Cook Island Maori | 8 (9) | 36 (40) | 3 (3) | 43 (48) | |
| Severe physical violence | <0.001 | ||||
| Samoan | 7 (2) | 74 (21) | 3 (1) | 267 (76) | |
| Tongan | 4 (3) | 8 (6) | 1 (1) | 131 (91) | |
| Cook Island Maori | 1 (1) | 26 (29) | 3 (3) | 60 (67) | |