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. 2022 Oct 19;13:953001. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.953001

Table 2.

Differences between participants with and without (complex) post-traumatic stress disorder (C) PTSD (N = 410).

A: Participants without
PTSD (n = 153)
B: Participants with
PTSD
(n = 23)
C: Participants with
CPTSD (n = 234)
F Post-hoc p
Variables M SD M SD M SD
Age 24.99 9.09 26.26 7.39 25.34 7.68 0.261 A = B = C 0.770
Childhood betrayal trauma 1.22 1.27 1.57 1.31 1.97 1.35 15.208 A < C 0.000
Childhood non-betrayal trauma 0.59 0.85 1.00 1.13 1.19 1.15 14.982 A < C 0.000
Adulthood betrayal trauma 0.95 1.09 1.22 1.00 1.64 1.23 16.414 A < C 0.000
Adulthood non-betrayal trauma 0.59 0.82 1.17 1.11 1.12 1.20 11.999 A < B, A < C 0.000
Interpersonal stress 15.02 3.54 15.22 3.94 16.47 3.83 7.305 A < C 0.001
Perceived family support 3.64 1.48 4.09 1.74 3.47 1.69 1.750 A = B = C 0.175
Depressive symptoms 17.84 4.55 16.57 3.24 20.64 4.19 24.965 A < C, B < C 0.000
Psychoform dissociative symptoms 67.58 21.19 64.52 22.37 84.87 25.55 27.811 A < C, B < C 0.000
Somatoform dissociative symptoms 6.22 1.80 5.96 2.20 7.18 2.64 9.250 A < C 0.000
Positive psychotic symptoms 31.15 7.49 32.30 8.95 38.66 11.70 26.374 A < C, B < C 0.000
Negative psychotic symptoms 36.27 7.65 31.13 8.80 39.28 8.21 14.611 A>B, A < C, B < C 0.000
Variables Percentage Percentage Percentage χ2 df p
Gender (female) 89.5% 91.3% 93.2% 3.489 4 0.480
Marital status (married) 13.7% 34.8% 18.8% 6.429 2 0.040
Education level (Bachelor's degree or above) 37.9% 47.8% 40.2% 0.860 2 0.650
Being unemployed 43.8% 34.8% 41.0% 2.789 4 0.594
Financially dependent on partners, friends, family or other people 57.5% 39.1% 50.0% 3.761 2 0.152
Financially dependent on social welfare 13.1% 13.0% 18.4% 2.095 2 0.351
Prior major depression diagnosis 36.6% 26.1% 45.7% 5.482 2 0.064
Currently seeing a psychiatrist 17.6% 17.4% 28.6% 7.892 4 0.096
Prior PTSD diagnosis 4.6% 30.4% 23.5% 26.905 2 0.000
Prior CPTSD diagnosis 2.0% 13.0% 1.4% 29.552 2 0.000