Table 2.
Trauma history analysis and PTSD symptomatology.
| Range |
CTE
(n = 161) |
nCTE
(n = 96) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall number of childhood/ adolescence trauma M (SD)a | 0–5 | 3.55 (1.03) | 0.41 (0.49) |
| Number of types of childhood/adolescence trauma n (%)a |
|||
| No traumatic experience | 57 (59.4) | ||
| One type of trauma | 39 (40.6) | ||
| Two types of traumata | 28 (17.4) | ||
| Three types of traumata | 53 (32.9) | ||
| Four types of traumata | 43 (26.7) | ||
| Five types of traumata | 37 (23.0) | ||
| Number of lifetime trauma M (SD)b | 0–18 | 5.94 (3.15) | 4.46 (2.53) |
| PTSD symptomatology M (SD)b | 0–24 | 6.27 (6.17) | 2.57 (4.57) |
a
Assessed with the CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire.
b
Assessed with the ITQ, International Trauma Questionnaire; CTE, Complex trauma exposure group; nCTE, No complex trauma exposure group.