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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Trauma Stress. 2009 Apr;22(2):91–101. doi: 10.1002/jts.20389

Table 2.

Mean Number of PTSD Symptoms by Sex and Subjective Trauma

Untraumatized men
(men not meeting
Criterion A2,
n = 20)
Traumatized men
(men meeting
Criterion A2,
n = 36)
Traumatized women
(women meeting
Criterion A2,
n = 25)
All




Measure α M SD Range M SD Range M SD Range M SD Range F (2, 78)
Count BCD .85 1.5 a 2.3 0–7 3.2 a 2.9 0–9 5.8 b 3.7 0–16 3.6 3.4 0–16 11.89**
Count B .67 0.2 a 0.4 0–1 0.6 a 0.9 0–3 1.6 b 1.4 0–5 0.8 1.1 0–5 12.20**
Count C .55 0.5 a 0.8 0–2 0.8 ab 0.8 0–3 1.2 b 1.5 0–6 0.8 1.1 0–6 3.39*
  Count C w/o C4 .74 0.2 0.4 0–1 0.3 0.6 0–3 0.7 1.5 0–6 0.4 1.0 0–6 1.80
Count D .84 0.9 a 1.3 0–4 1.8 a 1.8 0–5 3.0 b 1.8 0–5 1.9 1.8 0–5 9.30**

Note. Count B = number of intrusive symptoms. Count C = number of avoidance/numbing symptoms. D = number of arousal symptoms. Groups sharing superscripts did not differ in Bonferroni post-hoc tests (conducted only if Omnibus F significant at p < .05).

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.