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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Stress Health. 2023 Jun 2;40(1):e3279. doi: 10.1002/smi.3279

Table 3 –

Differences Among the Sleep Disturbance Latent Classes at Enrollment in the Effect of Each of the Stressors on Life Over the Past Year

Characteristica Low Sleep Disturbance (1)
25.2% (n=336)
High Sleep Disturbance (2)
50.8% (n=676)
Very High Sleep Disturbance (3)
24.0% (n=319)
Statistics
Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD)
Interpersonal Violence, Abuse, and Neglect Stressors
Family violence in childhood 1.9 (1.1) 1.9 (1.2) 2.0 (1.1) KW=1.21, p=.547
Emotional abuse 2.6 (1.5) 2.4 (1.2) 3.0 (1.4) KW=8.09, p=.018
2 < 3
Physical neglect 2.7 (1.7) 2.7 (1.3) 3.0 (1.3) KW=0.69, p=.708
Sexual harassment 1.5 (1.1) 1.5 (1.0) 1.5 (0.9) KW=1.04, p=.595
Physical abuse - <16 years 1.9 (1.3) 1.8 (1.3) 2.2 (1.2) KW=4.13, p=.127
Physical abuse - ≥16 years 1.8 (1.3) 1.7 (1.1) 2.2 (1.4) KW=3.37, p=.185
Forced to touch - <16 years 1.6 (1.1) 1.8 (1.2) 2.6 (1.5) KW=12.38, p=.002
1 and 2 < 3
Forced to touch - ≥16 years 1.2 (0.4) 1.9 (1.2) 2.2 (1.4) KW=3.71, p=.157
Forced sex - <16 years 1.0 (0.0) 1.8 (1.0) 2.5 (1.6) KW=3.15, p=.207
Forced sex - ≥16 years 1.6 (1.3) 1.6 (1.0) 2.0 (1.3) KW=2.61, p=.271
Other Stressors
Been in a serious disaster 1.2 (0.7) 1.3 (0.8) 1.5 (0.9) KW=10.14, p=.006
1 and 2 < 3
Seen serious accident 1.4 (0.8) 1.4 (0.8) 1.7 (1.1) KW=4.38, p=.112
Had serious accident or injury 1.5 (0.9) 1.6 (1.1) 1.8 (1.1) KW=3.96, p=.138
Jail (family member) 1.7 (1.2) 1.9 (1.4) 2.0 (1.4) KW=1.83, p=.400
Jail (self) 1.8 (1.3) 1.7 (1.1) 1.8 (1.4) KW=0.25, p=.882
Foster care or put up for adoption 2.6 (1.7) 1.9 (1.4) 2.5 (1.4) KW=0.97, p=.616
Separated/divorced (parents) 1.5 (0.9) 1.7 (1.1) 2.0 (1.3) KW=4.93, p=.085
Separated/divorced (self) 1.7 (1.2) 2.0 (1.3) 2.5 (1.5) KW=13.54, p=.001
1 and 2 < 3
Serious money problems 2.1 (1.6) 2.5 (1.6) 3.2 (1.7) KW=13.09, p=.001
1 and 2 < 3
Had serious physical or mental illness (not cancer) 2.2 (1.3) 2.4 (1.4) 2.7 (1.4) KW=5.26, p=.072
Abortion or miscarriage 1.4 (0.9) 1.5 (0.9) 1.9 (1.3) KW=14.03, p<.001
1 and 2 < 3
Separated from child 1.0 (0.0) 2.6 (1.4) 3.4 (1.8) KW=2.43, p=.298
Care for child with handicap 3.4 (1.5) 3.1 (1.4) 3.4 (1.3) KW=0.40, p=.820
Care for someone with severe physical or mental handicap 2.1 (1.3) 2.6 (1.4) 2.9 (1.6) KW=6.21, p=.045
1 < 3
Death of someone close (sudden) 1.9 (1.3) 2.2 (1.3) 2.4 (1.5) KW=9.36, p=.009
1 < 3
Death of someone close (not sudden) 1.9 (1.2) 2.2 (1.3) 2.4 (1.4) KW=20.42, p<.001
1 < 2 and 3
Seen robbery/mugging 1.4 (0.8) 1.5 (1.0) 1.7 (1.3) KW=3.24, p=.198
Been robbed/mugged 1.6 (1.0) 1.6 (1.0) 1.8 (1.2) KW=0.59, p=.743

Abbreviations: KW = Kruskal Wallis, SD = standard deviation

*

Range = 1 “not at all” to 5 “extremely”

a

These data are reported for those patients who reported the occurrence of the stressor (see Table 2)