Table 4.

Comparison of observed within time correlations between abuse reports and number of mental health problems at 18 and 21 years with estimated true correlations

Measure	Observed correlation	True correlation
Sexual abuse reports
18 years	0.33	0.29
21 years	0.27	0.31
Physical abuse reports a
18 years	0.19	0.19
21 years	0.13	0.20

^aThe true correlations for physical abuse report data were estimated from a model in which the recall bias parameter (B2) was fixed to zero.