Table 2.

Childhood trauma and measures of aggression in all participants.

		Homicide group ( N = 33)		Control group ( N = 75)		p
		M	SD	M	SD
Childhood trauma
Positive for childhood trauma (n, %)	Physical abuse	13 (39.4)		6 (8.0)		<0.001
	Emotional abuse	6 (18.2)		2 (2.7)		<0.01
	Sexual abuse	5 (15.2)		7 (9.3)		0.38
	Physical neglect	32 (97.0)		54 (72.0)		<0.01
	Emotional neglect	13 (39.4)		9 (12.0)		<0.01
	≥1 type of major trauma	16 (48.5)		11 (14.7)		<0.01
CTQ-SF	Total scores	58.85	14.67	46.87	9.89	<0.001
	Physical abuse	9.15	4.54	6.52	2.18	<0.001
	Emotional abuse	8.79	3.81	6.92	2.19	<0.01
	Sexual abuse	6.12	2.43	5.48	1.13	0.06
	Physical neglect	13.91	2.71	11.16	2.06	<0.001
	Emotional neglect	12.15	4.50	9.37	3.06	<0.01
Number of childhood trauma types		2.09	1.71	1.04	0.88	<0.001
Aggression
MOAS	Total scores	28.61	7.63	8.75	8.85	<0.001
	Physical aggression	4.00	0.00	1.03	1.24	<0.001
	Verbal aggression	3.00	1.12	1.15	1.20	<0.001
	Aggression against object	2.39	1.50	0.91	1.15	<0.001
	Auto-aggression	1.39	1.68	0.56	0.99	0.02