. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: Psychol Assess. 2011 Jun;23(2):463–477. doi: 10.1037/a0022294

Table 3.

Relationships of High Magnitude Stressor and Persisting Posttraumatic Distress (PPD) Events to PTSD Symptoms.

	Homeless Veterans (N=115)	Hospital Trauma (N=125)	University Students (N=210)	Young Adults (N=255)	Adults (N=115)
r_HMS _× _PTSD	.41^***	.33^***	.22^**	.34^***	.32^***
r_PPDs _× _PTSD	.25^**	.38^***	.18^**	.30^***	.37^***

^**

p < .01,

^***

p < .001

Note: PTSD symptoms were assessed with the PCL-C for the homeless veteran and university samples and with the SPTSS for the hospital trauma, young adult, and adult samples.