TABLE 2.  Lifetime Prevalence of Trauma Experience*
     

 

men (%)

women (%)

Trauma

(N=2812)

(N=3065)

Any Trauma

60.7

51.2***

Number of Traumas

 

 

1

25.6

26.3

2

14.5

13.5

3

 9.5

 5.0***

4

10.2

 6.4***

**Rape

 0.7

 9.2***

**Molestation

 2.8

12.3***

**Physical Attack

11.1

 6.9***

**Physical Abuse

 3.2

 4.8***

Combat

 6.4

 0.0***

Threat with Weapon

19.0

 6.8***

Accident

25.0

13.8***

Natural Disaster with Fire

18.9

15.2***

Witness Trauma

35.6

14.5

Neglect

 2.1

 3.4

 

 

 

*      Abstracted from Kessler et al., 1995 (3)

**    Interpersonal Violence.

***  Significant gender difference p<.05 (two-tailed test)

 

 

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