Table 1.

Characteristics of the subjects

Characteristic	Controls (N = 27)		Trauma survivors (N = 23)
	N	%	N	%	pa
Female	16	59.26	16	69.57	0.56
Age	20.19	s.d.: 2.12	19.57	s.d.: 1.38	0.22
Years of education	13.84	s.d.: 1.69	13.45	s.d.: 1.05	0.34
PTSD	0	0	5	21.74	0.02
Major depressive episode	0	0	3	13.04	0.09
Panic disorder	0	0	8	34.78	0.001
Generalized anxiety disorder	0	0	2	8.70	0.21
Obsessive compulsive disorder	0	0	1	0.04	0.46

^aThe χ² test was used for sex and psychopathology comparisons across the two groups; two-sample t test was used for age and years of education comparisons.