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Table 3.

Types of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) compared with normative data

ACE type	Current sample (N = 151), %	Normative sample^a (N = 7970), %	t
Psychological abuse	52.3	7.6	19.58^b
Physical abuse	41.1	29.9	2.97^c
Sexual abuse	27.2	16.0	3.70^b
Emotional neglect	50.3	12.4	13.62
Physical neglect	21.9	10.7	4.37
Household substance abuse	47.7	23.8	6.79^b
Household mental illness	25.8	14.8	3.75^c
Mother physical abuse	27.8	11.5	6.15^b
Criminal behavior in household	20.5	4.1	9.73^b
Parental divorce	53.6	21.8	8.66^a

Normative sample data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.⁸

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