Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of the main study variables and gender differences.
| Males |
Females |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | M | SD | M | SD | t | |
| Age | M = 141; F = 182 | 31.94 | 9.03 | 30.87 | 9.01 | 1.06 |
| Education | M = 139; F = 180 | 7.06 | 4.73 | 5.38 | 4.81 | 3.12** |
| Traumatic exposure a | M = 141; F = 179 | 34.64 | 8.02 | 36.25 | 8.03 | −1.78 |
| PTSD symptom severity b | M = 141; F = 179 | 29.71 | 13.90 | 35.70 | 11.64 | −4.11*** |
| Psycho-social dysfunctioning in everyday life c | M = 141; F = 181 | 5.86 | 5.32 | 8.17 | 6.05 | −3.64*** |
| Corsi block tapping (CBT) task | M = 141; F = 179 | 12.21 | 4.10 | 10.23 | 3.71 | 4.53*** |
| Tower of London (TOL) test | M = 140; F = 179 | 27.71 | 6.13 | 24.74 | 6.85 | 4.02*** |
t: t-test or Welch-test statistics; *p ≤ 0.05. **p ≤ 0.01. ***p ≤ 0.001. aIndex of traumatic and other adverse event types, bPSS-I sum score, cLuo functioning scale sum score.