Fig 1.
Percentages of Clinical and Community Samples in CTQ Severity Quartiles.
X-Axis: Quartiles of childhood maltreatment based on total CTQ scores: none, low, moderate, and severe. Y-Axis: The percentage of subjects whose CTQ scores fall into that severity quartile. Within each quartile, the bar depicted on the left represents the percentage of clinical subjects (n = 5429–5876), and the bar on the right represents the percentage of community subjects (n = 12432–12915). Notably, the largest relative percentage of community subjects was in the “none” maltreatment quartile. That trend was reversed in the “moderate” and “severe” categories, where double the percentage of subjects were in the clinical group.
Table 1.
CTQ and subscale means for clinical and community samples.
Table 2.
Associations between CTQ Total and Subscale Score Severity Ratings and Community (n = 12432–12915)* versus Clinical (n = 5429–5876)* Criterion.
Table 3.
Associations between MD Subscale Scores and Community versus Clinical Criterion.
Table 4.
Association between CTQ Severity Ratings and MD Total Scores.
Fig 2.
Taxometric Analyses of Minimization and Denial Items.
Top row: left panel—average MAMBAC curve for the observed data (dark line) in comparison to simulated taxonic data (light lines representing one standard deviation above and below the mean); right panel—average MAMBAC curve for the observed data (dark line) in comparison to simulated dimensional data (light lines representing one standard deviation above and below the mean). Middle row: left panel—average MAXEIG curve for the observed data (dark line) in comparison to simulated taxonic data (light lines representing one standard deviation above and below the mean); right panel—average MAXEIG curve for the observed data (dark line) in comparison to simulated dimensional data (light lines representing one standard deviation above and below the mean). Bottom row: left panel—average L-Mode curve for the observed data (dark line) in comparison to simulated taxonic data (light lines representing one standard deviation above and below the mean); right panel—average L-Mode curve for the observed data (dark line) in comparison to simulated dimensional data (light lines representing one standard deviation above and below the mean). Inverted U-shaped graphs for the MAMBAC procedure, peaked graphs for the MAXEIG procedure, and bimodal distributions of factor scores for the L-Mode procedure are all suggestive of taxonic structure.