Table 1.

Participants' Sociodemographics and Psychological/Emotional Distress by Prior Physical and/or Sexual Abuse (N = 99)

	Not abused (n = 15)		Abused (n = 84)
	n	%	n	%	Effect sizea
Race/ethnicity
Caucasian/White	3	20.0	25	29.8	ns
African American/Black	6	40.0	27	32.1
Hispanic/Latina	3	20.0	21	25.0
Multiracial/other	3	20.0	11	13.1
Age (mean, SD)
Years	30.9	6.9	35.9	9.3	−0.56*
Educational attainment (mean, SD)
Years	12.1	1.3	11.3	2.6	ns
HIV status
HIV positive	4	26.7	33	39.3	ns
Homelessness
Currently living on the streets	4	26.7	26	31.0	ns
Psychological/emotional distress symptoms (current)b	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Somatization	0.32	0.56	0.81	0.87	−0.59*
Obsessive compulsive disorder	0.59	0.59	1.35	1.12	−0.73**
Interpersonal sensitivity	0.60	0.87	1.29	1.06	−0.68*
Depression	0.61	0.91	1.27	1.10	−0.62*
Anxiety	0.43	0.64	1.19	1.08	−0.75**
Hostility	0.49	0.79	0.89	0.88	−0.47†
Phobic anxiety	0.39	0.50	1.02	1.10	−0.62*
Paranoid ideation	0.64	0.71	1.50	1.04	−0.88**
Psychoticism	0.53	0.80	1.02	1.00	−0.51†

^aCohen^'s d for uneven groups.

^bAs measured by the Brief Symptom Inventory.

^†≤0.10; ^*p ≤ 0.05; ^**p ≤ 0.01; two tailed.

ns, Not significant; SD, standard deviation.