Table 1.
Frequency and/or Severity of Individual ACE Categories
| Childhood abuse experiences | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verbal abuse | Never = 51.3% | Rarely = 20.1% | Sometimes = 19.3% | Often = 9.3% |
| Physical abuse | Never = 95.2% | Rarely = 0.7% | Sometimes = 1.5% | Often = 2.6% |
| Sexual abuse | Never = 96.0% | Once = 1.0% | More than once = 2.9% | – |
| Perceived family-of-origin incomea | ||||
| 1 = 19.7% (1 = A lot better off) | 2 = 69% | 3 = 3.3%, | 4 = 4.8% | 5 = 2.9% (5 = A lot worse off) |
| Early parental loss | ||||
| Lost parent due to divorce, death, or abandonment | No = 78.2% | Yes = 21.8% | ||
| Parental psychopathology | ||||
| Mean (SD) of Symptoms | Percent with no Symptoms | |||
| Father internalizing | 1.8 (3.8) | 74.7% | ||
| Mother internalizing | 2.9 (4.9) | 64.0% | ||
| Father externalizing | 1.1 (2.3) | 68.7% | ||
| Mother externalizing | 0.5 (1.7) | 86.7% | ||
Note. ACE = adverse childhood experiences; SD standard deviation.
a
Participants were asked to compare their family of origin’s financial status during childhood to the average family in their community when growing up, on a scale ranging from 1 (a lot better off) to 5 (a lot worse off)