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Table 3 Relationship between Measures of Stress Load

From: Stress load during childhood affects psychopathology in psychiatric patients

 

ELS-events/

ELS-score

PPS-events/

PPS-score

AS-events/

AS-events

PSQ (prenatal stress)

   

patients:

r s = .53***/.51***

r s = .53***/.56***

r s = .20*/.30**

comparison group:

r s = .37*/.45*

r s = .54**/.69***

r s = .36*

PDS (traumatic stress)

   

patients:

r s = .42***/.39***

r s = .57***/.48***/

r s = .31**/.27*

comparison group:

n.s.

n.s.

n.s.

  1. Note. a ELS: Early life stress before the age of 6 years. bPPS: prepubertal stress before the individual onset of puberty. cAS: Adulthood stress between puberty and the current age. PSQ: Prenatal Stress Questionnaire, PDS: Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale see note of Table 2. Correlations are represented by Spearman's rho. * p < .05, ** p < .01, *** p < .001.
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BMC Psychiatry

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