Research Article
Late-Term Elective Abortion and Susceptibility to Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms
Table 1
Frequencies of demographic and control variable categories for full sample.
| Race | |
| White | 85.4% | Black | 3.0% | Hispanic | 5.7% | Asian | .5% | Other | 5.4% |
| Education at the time of survey | | Less than 12 years | 2.7% | High school diploma | 21.4% | Technical/associates degree | 29.2% | Bachelor degree | 28.7% | Graduate degree | 18.0% |
| Marital status at the time of abortion | | Married | 14% | Unmarried | 86% |
| Number of children at time of survey | | None | 42.0% | One | 12.8% | Two | 23.0% | Three | 13.9% | Four or more | 8.2% |
| Number of abortions | | One | 73.4% | Two or more | 26.6% |
| Meaningfulness of respondent’s religion | | Not at all | 8.2% | Not very | 4.4% | Somewhat | 10.7% | Important | 12.1% | Very important | 64.6% |
| Mental health counseling prior to abortion | | Yes | 27.5% | No | 72.5% |
| Hospitalized for emotional reasons prior to abortion | | Yes | 3.8% | No | 96.2% |
| Victim of child abuse | | Yes | 24.1% | No | 75.9% |
| Victim of sexual abuse in childhood or adolescence | | Yes | 36.7% | No | 63.3% |
| Victim of physical abuse during adulthood | | Yes | 26.3% | No | 73.7% |
| Victim of sexual abuse during adulthood | | Yes | 32.5% | No | 67.5% |
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