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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 8.
Published in final edited form as: Child Abuse Negl. 2012 May 8;36(4):370–378. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2012.03.001

Table 1.

Presence of maltreatment types by gender

Male Female
N 149 150
Emotional abuse 49% 73 55% 83
Physical abuse 60% 89 45% 67
Sexual abuse 15% 23 27% 41
Neglect 81% 121 74% 111

Note: Total percentages add up to more than 100% because 76% of adolescents experienced more than one type of maltreatment. Four subjects (1%; 3 males and 1 female) in the maltreatment group did not have a type of maltreatment noted.