Overall, our findings suggest that nonsexual assaultive trauma was associated with excess moves made, which may suggest poor planning and problem‐solving skills. Although previous studies have shown associations between early trauma and poor cognitive function, this is the first study investigating the influence of different types of trauma in a planning and problem‐solving task, such as the TOLT (Bucker et al., 2012; Corbo, Amick, Milberg, McGlinchey, & Salat, 2016; DePrince, Weinzierl, & Combs, 2009; Malarbi, Abu‐Rayya, Muscara, & Stargatt, 2017). For example, Corbo et al. (2016) showed that veterans with a history of childhood sexual abuse, physical abuse, or family violence had a greater number of errors in an affective Go/No‐Go task. DePrince et al. (2009) showed that familial trauma (relative to nonfamilial and no trauma exposure) was associated with poor performance, using an executive function composite score. Further, Malarbi et al. (2017) demonstrated that trauma‐exposed children showed cognitive deficits, especially those with a PTSD diagnosis. However, these studies have been limited by sample sizes (e.g., Bucker et al. (2012) recruited 30 trauma‐exposed children and 30 age‐ and sex‐matched controls)
