Rethinking Social Support and Conflict: Lessons from a Study of Women Who Have Separated from Abusive Partners

Table 1

Demographic characteristics and abuse histories of study participants (𝑁=309).

Variable	Range	Mean	SD	% of; sample
Demographic characteristics
Age	19–63	39.4	9.8
Education (in years)	6–22	13.4	2.6
Annual income	0–95,000	15,695	20,391
Employed				45.1%
Receiving social assistance				31.4%
Disability benefit				10.4%
Living with children (<18 years)				57.0%
Racialized				16.8%
Aboriginal				7.4%
First language english				92.4%
Abuse History
Duration of IPV (in years)	0.25–37	8.5	7.8
Time since separation (months)	3–40.5	20.1	10.2
Past month harassment				50%
>1 abusive partner				59%
Abused as a child				81%