TABLE 1.
Self-Report and Diagnostic Interview Data of Rape Victims With Low or High Levels of Peritraumatic Dissociation
| Variable | Peritraumatic Dissociation Group |
Analysis | Correlation With Peritraumatic Dissociation Index Scorea | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low (N=31) | High (N=16) | ||||||||
| N | % | N | % | χ2 | df | p | |||
| Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale diagnosis | 7.4 | 1 | 0.01 | ||||||
| No PTSD | 14 | 45 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| PTSD | 17 | 55 | 15 | 94 | |||||
| SCID-NP diagnosisb | 0.83 | 1 | n.s. | ||||||
| No depression | 22 | 71 | 8 | 57 | |||||
| Depression | 9 | 29 | 6 | 43 | |||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | F | df | p | r | p | |
| Scores on self-report measures | |||||||||
| Peritraumatic Dissociation Index | 6.7 | 2.4 | 24.4 | 3.3 | — | — | — | — | — |
| PTSD Symptom Scale | |||||||||
| Reexperiencing | 5.9 | 2.6 | 7.7 | 3.1 | 4.6 | 1, 46 | 0.05 | 0.29 | 0.05 |
| Avoidance | 8.7 | 4.0 | 13.4 | 5.0 | 12.1 | 1, 46 | 0.001 | 0.40 | 0.01 |
| Arousal | 10.1 | 4.8 | 13.2 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 1, 46 | 0.05 | 0.30 | 0.05 |
| Total | 24.6 | 9.7 | 34.3 | 11.5 | 9.0 | 1, 46 | 0.005 | 0.38 | 0.05 |
| Beck Depression Inventory | 15.6 | 8.8 | 24.1 | 11.4 | 7.9 | 1, 45 | 0.005 | 0.32 | 0.05 |
| Global distress | 116.9 | 57.4 | 154.4 | 65.7 | 4.1 | 1, 45 | 0.05 | 0.31 | 0.05 |
| Life threat | 4.5 | 2.6 | 6.5 | 2.0 | 6.7 | 1, 46 | 0.01 | 0.24 | n.s. |
| Subjective Units of Distress Scale | 3.4 | 2.7 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 7.1 | 1, 225 | 0.01 | — | — |
a
Pearson zero-order correlation for the entire group of rape victims (N=85).
b
A depression diagnosis with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R—Non-Patient Version was not obtained for two subjects in the high peritraumatic dissociation group.