. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Behav Genet. 2018 Dec 7;49(1):11–23. doi: 10.1007/s10519-018-9941-z

Table 1.

Frequencies of stressful life events

No	Short description	Childhood^a	Intermediate^b	Any/total^c	Missing^d
1	Life-threatening illness	40	23	115	525
2	Serious/life-threatening accident	35	16	143	517
3	Direct combat experience in war	0	2	29	508
4	Witnessed a bad injury or kill	31	31	203	538
5	Threatened, captive, or kidnapped	20	11	146	517
6	Fire, flood, or natural disaster	30	18	127	515
7	Raped	27	4	86	513
8	Sexually abused or molested (non-rape)	113	1	166	519
9	Otherwise physically attacked/assaulted	70	27	283	539
10	Otherwise physically abused as a child	66	0	68	518
11	Otherwise mistreated as a child	55	0	56	523
12	Parental alcohol or mental problem as a child	252	1	270	638
13	Parents divorced or moved apart when child	317	2	418	540
14	Own divorce or broken engagement	4	185	633	585
15	Major financial difficulties lasting over time	6	32	136	542
16	Unemployed for more than 6 months	7	46	191	559
17	Major lasting conflict with a close person	17	54	254	530
18	Anything else bad to mention in this section	57	76	350	630

^a)

Before age 16

^b)

After 1^st interview and 5 or more years before the 2^nd interview

^c)

Any time

^d)

A missing observation that could have been a stressful life event or not, or was an untimed event. Most missing observations are not due to item non-response but due to drop out from wave 1 to wave 2. The SLE questionnaire was filled in in the latter wave.