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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Psychiatr Res. 2017 Dec 7;98:1–8. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2017.11.015

Table 4.

Demographic Information Across PTSD Symptoms Subclasses

Subclasses of PSS Symptom
Demographic High severity and comorbidity (n=932) Moderate severity (n=1179) Low PTSD and high depression (n=657) Resilient (n=2295) Chisq p-value
Sex (Female, %) 72.4% 73.0% 72.2 % 68.4% χ2(3) = 10.5, p = 0.010
Race (AA a, % ) 89.9% 91.5% 91.3% 93.5 % χ2(15) = 35.8, p < 0.001
Unemployment (%) 79.6% 69.3% 72.0% 63.8% χ2(3) = 80.10, p < 0.001
Age (M, SD b ) 41.29 (11.79) 39.17 (13.24) 42.96 (13.14) 40.67 (14.35) F(3, 5032) = 11.40, p < 0.001
Education (%)
 L12 c 28.2 % 22.3% 19.9% 20.5%
 H12 d 30.4 % 34.2% 34.6% 36.3%
 GED e 7.5 % 6.3% 4.6% 3.4%
 CT f 21.2% 24.2% 24.5% 23.8% χ2(18) = 76.1, p < 0.001
 TSG g 5.4% 3.6% 5.4% 4.3%
 CG h 6.3 % 7.4% 9.6% 9.7%
 GS l 1.0 % 2.0 1.4% 1.9%
Income ($, %)
 0–249 31.6% 21.0% 22.3% 19.8%
 250–499 8.5% 9.6% 8.1% 8.5%
 500–999 28.0% 28.1% 25.0% 26.0% χ2(12) = 81.5, p < 0.001
 1000–1999 21.8% 26.7% 28.4% 28.3%
≥ 2000 9.9% 14.6% 16.1% 17.4%
a

African American

b

M= Mean, SD= standard deviation

c

Did not complete 12th grade

d

Completed 12th grade or high school graduate

e

Graduate equivalence diploma

f

Some college/technical school

g

Technical school graduate

h

College graduate

l

Graduate school