Within event types, persons with PTSD had higher percentages of all six predispositions than persons with trauma alone without PTSD (Table 2). Results also show that among victims of sexual assault who did not develop PTSD, percentages of parental problems were considerably higher than among victims of the comparison events who did not develop PTSD. (see last column in Table 2 under parental problems). This suggests that parental problems predicted exposure to sexual assault, apart from their effect on PTSD following exposure to sexual assault. This pattern was specific to sexual assault and was not observed in relation to the other three events.
