Table 5.
Unstandardized estimates of mediation pathways of adverse childhood experiences and HIV/STI diagnosis via posttraumatic stress disorder, major depression, substance use disorders, early sexual debut and intimate partner violence perpetration among men and women
| Latent variable | Posttraumatic stress disorder
|
Major depression
|
Substance use disorders
|
Early sexual debut
|
IPV perpetration
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Est.a | p value | Est.a | p value | Est.a | p value | Est.a | p value | Est.a | p value | |
| Men | ||||||||||
| Neglect | 0.0001 | 0.145 | −0.0001 | 0.142 | −0.0006 | 0.008** | −0.0002 | 0.031* | −0.0002 | 0.247 |
| Physical/psychological abuse | 0.0002 | 0.012* | 0.0003 | 0.004** | 0.0010 | <0.001*** | 0.0002 | 0.015* | 0.0002 | 0.263 |
| Sexual abuse | 0.0002 | 0.003** | 0.0002 | 0.006** | 0.0004 | 0.002** | 0.0003 | 0.007** | 0.0005 | 0.012* |
| Parental violence | −0.0001 | 0.166 | −0.0001 | 0.209 | −0.0002 | 0.167 | 0.0000 | 0.411 | 0.0001 | 0.336 |
| Parental incarceration/psychopathology | 0.0001 | 0.032* | 0.0002 | 0.058 | 0.0000 | 0.015* | 0.0001 | 0.100 | 0.0000 | 0.766 |
| Women | ||||||||||
| Neglect | 0.0000 | 0.549 | −0.0002 | 0.052 | −0.0004 | 0.003** | −0.0002 | 0.078 | 0.0003 | 0.266 |
| Physical/psychological abuse | 0.0001 | 0.053 | 0.0005 | <0.001*** | 0.0005 | <0.001*** | 0.0001 | 0.317 | −0.0005 | 0.235 |
| Sexual abuse | 0.0002 | 0.267 | 0.0003 | 0.218 | 0.0003 | 0.216 | 0.0110 | 0.194 | −0.0018 | 0.388 |
| Parental violence | 0.0000 | 0.207 | −0.0002 | 0.012* | 0.0000 | 0.675 | 0.0001 | 0.267 | −0.0001 | 0.415 |
| Parental incarceration/psychopathology | 0.0000 | 0.596 | 0.0001 | 0.084 | 0.0002 | 0.028* | 0.0002 | 0.043* | −0.0001 | 0.462 |
Est. unstandardized estimate, PTSD posttraumatic stress disorder, SE standard error
Bolded numbers are statistically significant at
p < 0.05,
p < 0.01,
p < 0.001
Standard errors for all estimates are < 0.001