. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Personal Disord. 2010 Jan 1;1(1):38–57. doi: 10.1037/a0018135

Table 7.

Group Differences on Measures of Traumatic Experience, PTSD symptoms, Mental Health Treatment, and Suicide Attempts.

	Control (n = 70) M (SD)	Primary (n = 31) M (SD)	Secondary (n = 39) M (SD)	Effect Sizes for Group Differences (d)
	Control (n = 70) M (SD)	Primary (n = 31) M (SD)	Secondary (n = 39) M (SD)	Primary vs Control	Secondary vs Control	Secondary vs Primary
Trauma History
Physical abuse (%)	17.1	29.0	41.0		.67^**
Sexual abuse (%)	25.7	48.4	43.6	.55^*
Physical assault (%)	50.0	64.5	63.2
Sexual assault (%)	21.4	35.5	20.5
Cumulative trauma exposure	1.1 (1.0)	1.8 (1.3)	1.7 (1.2)	.60^*
PTSD symptoms	2.0 (0.9)	1.9 (0.8)	2.7 (0.8)		.82^***	1.00^***
Mental Health Treatment	1.0 (1.1)	1.4 (1.4)	1.7 (1.2)		.61^*
Suicide attempt (%)	22.9	9.7	38.5			.97^**

Note.

p < .05;

^**

p < .01;

^***

p < .001.

For effect sizes of group differences, comparisons are based on post host tests using Tukey’s procedure. Only comparisons with protected p values < .05 are reported.