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. 2008 Jul 23;8:63. doi: 10.1186/1471-244X-8-63

Table 3.

Relationship between Measures of Stress Load

ELS-events/
ELS-score 		PPS-events/
PPS-score 		AS-events/
AS-events
PSQ (prenatal stress)
patients: rs = .53***/.51*** rs = .53***/.56*** rs = .20*/.30**
comparison group: rs = .37*/.45* rs = .54**/.69*** rs = .36*
PDS (traumatic stress)
patients: rs = .42***/.39*** rs = .57***/.48***/ rs = .31**/.27*
comparison group: n.s. n.s. n.s.

Note. a ELS: Early life stress before the age of 6 years. bPPS: prepubertal stress before the individual onset of puberty. cAS: Adulthood stress between puberty and the current age. PSQ: Prenatal Stress Questionnaire, PDS: Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale see note of Table 2. Correlations are represented by Spearman's rho. * p < .05, ** p < .01, *** p < .001.