Aspects of social support and disclosure in the context of institutional abuse – long-term impact on mental health

Table 3 Binary logistic regression for predicting the severity of hostility using current disclosure, perceived social support, actual partnership (yes/no), type of violence experienced (yes/no), severity of posttraumatic symptoms

Variables	Regression coefficient	SE	Wald		p	Exp(B)
Urge to talk	−0.074	0.060	1.548	1	0.214	0.928
Reluctance to talk	−0.100	0.054	3.387	1	0.066	0.095
Emotional reaction	0.000	0.055	0.000	1	1.944	1.000
Partnership (y/n)	0.221	0.489	0.205	1	0.651	1.248
Social support perceived	−0.036	0.031	1.340	1	0.247	0.965
Physical violence	1.130	0.568	3.953	1	0.047	0.323
Sexual violence	−0.362	0.623	0.338	1	0.561	0.696
Emotional violence	0.131	0.628	0.043	1	0.835	1.140
Severity of posttraumatic symptoms	0.146	0.026	32.738	1	<0.001	1.157
constant	−2.981	1.436	4.309	1	0.038	0.051

Note. Variable entered on step 1: urge to talk, reluctance to talk, emotional reaction, partnership, social support perceived, physical violence, sexual violence, emotional violence, severity of posttraumatic symptoms. SE = standard error, df = degrees of freedom

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