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Published in final edited form as: Sex Res Social Policy. 2006 Mar;3(1):13–21. doi: 10.1525/srsp.2006.3.1.13

Table 2.

Comparison of Indicators of Adaptive Functioning Between Lower and Higher Childhood Adversity History Groups

Indicators of Adaptive Functioning	Childhood Adversity History
	Lower (N = 435)	Higher (N = 134)
	%	%
Employed	73.3	55.2^***
Stably housed	93.1	74.6^***
In school or graduated high school	87.8	68.7^***
No criminal justice system involvement	63.4	18.7^***
Positive mental health	54.5	35.8^***
Social support	72.0	59.7^**
No/casual hard drug use	79.3	70.1^*
Adaptive functioning score M (SD)	5.23 (1.57)	3.83 (1.71)^***

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.