Table 2.

Similarities and Differences Between Criterion A1 and Non-Criterion A1 Prejudice-Related Events Associated with Relaxed Criterion A1 PTSD

Similarities	Differences
	Criterion A1	Non-Criterion A1
Events were prejudice-related	Severe physical injury	No severe physical injury or life-threat
Significant life changes made following the event	Clear-cut avoidance symptoms following the event among all participants	Clear-cut avoidance symptoms following the event among some participants
Safety or security was felt to be compromised	Perpetrators not known	Perpetrators known in most cases (e.g., peers, relative, partner)
Experience of emotional distress	Alone when assaults occurred	In the presence of others (e.g., relative, friend) when event occurred
	Adults when event occurred	Teenagers when event occurred