Exploratory factor analysis extracted five meaningful factors from the promax rotated matrix of tetrachoric correlations among the TE types (Table 2). The first factor represents TEs associated with exposure to collective violence (e.g. being a civilian in a war zone, a relief worker in a war zone, a refugee). The second factor encompasses TEs associated with causing or witnessing serious bodily harm to others (e.g. purposely injuring, torturing or killing someone; combat experience). The third factor represents TEs associated with exposure to interpersonal violence (e.g. beaten up by a caregiver as a child, witnessed physical fights at home as a child, beaten up by someone other than a romantic partner). The fourth factor represents TEs associated with exposure to intimate partner or sexual violence (e.g. physically assaulted by a romantic partner, raped, sexually assaulted). Interestingly, other TEs and private TEs both had their highest standardized partial regression coefficients (the equivalents of factor loadings) on this factor, suggesting that these highly personal events were more similar to intimate partner or sexual violence than to other types of TEs. The fifth factor
