was not violent or accidental), and the three other types of stressful events (other events resulting in injury, perceived as potentially life threatening, or perceived as extraordinarily stressful). We combined physical or sexual assault for the purpose of symptom attribution as “direct interpersonal violence,” which has been consistently identified as a class of events most likely to result in PTSD (e.g., Ozer, Best, Lipsey, & Weiss, 2003; Resnick, Kilpatrick, Dansky, Saunders, & Best, 1993).
