Interview Data

As can be seen from inspection of Table 1, a substantial percentage of the battered women either "often" or "very often" experienced each of the listed symptoms. Among the most frequently experienced symptoms were:

(1) Trouble concentrating (experience often or very often by 100 percent of sample women).

(2) Easy startle response (experienced often or very often by 85 percent of sample women).

(3) Avoidance of stimuli provoking memories (experienced often or very often by 78 percent of sample women).

(4) Feelings of numbness or detachment (experienced often or very often by 73 percent of sample women).

The least frequently experienced symptoms were flashbacks

Interview Data: Percentage of Women Experiencing

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s. In other words, some symptoms were experienced by more women more often than were other symptoms. What might explain this variance in degree of experienced symptoms is the fact that the degree of trauma giving rise to symptoms has a strongly subjective component. In this regard, it can be remembered that in the literature review, Janoff-Bulman (1985) was cited as noting the fact that trauma giving rise to PTSD was dependent upon the individual and the way he or she perceives the event. In other words, the same event could be of low to moderate trauma to one individual and extremely high trauma to another depending upon differences in perception. It could be that frequencies of symptoms varied because the degree to which being battered contributed to the development of PTSD was dependent upon women's perceptions of the battering as well as upon the actual physical conditions (brutality of the beating, frequency, etc.) associated with the battering experience. The researcher also talked with women about the decisions they had made in response to the battering. Virtually, all of these women had separated from their husbands or boyfriends and these batterers were now either awaiting trial/sentencing for battering or had al
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