Table 1.

Mother’s child abuse, adult trauma, and PTSD symptoms, and children’s age, violence exposure (VEXR), and trauma exposure (TESI), by maternal Class assignment. Means followed by standard deviations, M(SD), and results of a one-way analysis of variance that tested for class differences.

	Lower Trauma	Moderate Trauma	High Sex Abuse	High Trauma & PTSD Symptoms	F
Mother
Age	35.2 (8.4)	31.0 (5.5)	37.4 (8.9)	36.1 (8.2)	N.S.
Child abuse	31.3 (7.2)	62.9 (9.1)	61.8 (10.0)	91.9 (9.0)	(3,136) = 283.8**
Adult traumas	3.5 (2.4)	5.8 (2.0)	5.2 (2.6)	8.3 (2.8)	(3,134) = 14.7**
PTSS symptoms	10.6 (10.5)	18.7 (10.1)	22.2 (12.5)	30.4 (11.3)	(3,132) = 20.0**
Child
Age	10.0 (1.6)	10.0 (1.9)	10.6 (1.5)	10.1 (1.3)	N.S.
Violence (VEX-R)	8.2 (4.0)	8.2 (4.3)	8.9 (4.7)	10.3 (5.1)	N.S.
Trauma (TESI)	4.5 (2.7)	4.7 (3.1)	4.9 (2.2)	6.0 (3.6)	N.S.

Note. N.S. indicates a non-significant F-test.

^**indicates p < .001.