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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 27.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2018 Feb;260:468–472. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.12.022

Table 1.

Means of Alexithymia and Psychological Distress by Sexual Abuse and Gender

Variables Victims of child sexual abuse Non victims Total

Mean (SE) Mean (SE) Mean (SE)
Alexithymia
 Girls 12.19 (0.25) 10.81 (0.08) 11.09 (0.10)
 Boys 11.51 (0.53) 8.46 (0.13) 8.58 (0.13)
 Total 12.08 (0.23) 9.77 (0.11) 10.02 (0.11)
Psychological distress
 Girls 13.85 (0.39) 10.00 (0.14) 10.52 (0.16)
 Boys 10.12 (1.06) 5.97 (0.20) 6.14 (0.19)
 Total 13.31 (0.39) 8.32 (0.25) 8.80 (0.26)