trauma. This may suggest that although nonsexual assaultive and nonassaultive traumatic exposures have an effect on future symptoms of PTSD, sexual assaultive trauma may affect women to a greater extent than other forms of trauma. Many studies typically combine nonsexual assaultive trauma and sexual assaultive trauma into a single trauma category (assaultive trauma). Together with previous work (Meyers et al., 2019), the results in this study suggest that these traumatic exposures may affect male and female individuals differently and should be considered as separate traumatic exposures in future studies, in addition to considering sex differences.
