Table 3.

Traumatic Events Identified as Most Distressing by Gender (N=352)

	Total (N=352)		Male (n=100)		Female (n=252)
	n	%	n	%	n	%	χ2	p
							81.81	0.000
Childhood Sexual Abuse	104	29.5	14	14	90	31.9
Sudden death of loved one	86	24.4	22	22	64	22.8
Threatened by Stranger	55	15.6	24	24	31	10.7
Experiencing Domestic Violence	28	8	2	2	26	6.4
Stranger Assault	24	6.8	14	14	10	3.5
Adult Sexual Abuse	11	3.1	2	2	9	3.2
Childhood Physical Abuse	10	2.8	3	3	7	2.5
Witnessing Stranger Violence	10	2.8	7	7	3	1.1
Robbery	8	2.3	3	3	5	1.8
Car Accident	6	1.7	5	5	1	0.4
Other Accident	5	1.4	2	2	3	1.1
Witnessing Domestic Violence as a Child	3	0.9	0	0	3	1.1
Warfare	2	0.6	2	2	0	0
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	t	p
Age at most distressing event (M, SD)*	21.7	13.82	23.97	14.01	20.73	13.69	1.49	0.14
Years since most distressing event (M,SD)*	19.38	14.28	17.41	14.14	20.20	14.31	−1.24	0.22

Note. “Other” includes but not limited to loss of custody, symptoms of mental illness, hostage or kidnap, incarceration, arrest, imprisonment, multiple trauma, being bullied, surgery threatened or experiencing 9/11.

^*N= 194 due to missing data;

There were no significant differences for index trauma, time since index trauma, age when index trauma occurred or rate of documented PTSD (documented vs. undocumented PTSD in medical chart) across diagnostic groups (schizophrenia/schizoaffective vs. MDD vs. Bipolar Disorders).