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Table 2 Association between fathers’ war exposure and lifetime PTSD with offspring’s psychometric variables

From: Intergenerational transmission of war-related trauma assessed 40 years after exposure

Exposures

War exposure

PTSD, lifetime

Outcomes

β (95% CI)

p

β (95% CI)

p

CTQ-SF

 Emotional abuse

0.076 (− 0.046, 0.197)

0.217

0.271 (− 1.558, 2.100)

0.763

 Sexual abuse

0.008 (− 0.083, 0.099)

0.861

− 0.383 (− 1.733, 0.966)

0.564

 Physical abuse

0.041 (− 0.019, 0.100)

0.176

0.397 (− 0.485, 1.279)

0.363

 Emotional neglect

0.038 (− 0.089, 0.166)

0.548

0.622 (− 1.296, 2.539)

0.511

 Physical neglect

0.046 (− 0.003, 0.095)

0.063

0.073 (− 0.717, 0.862)

0.851

 Total CTQ-SF

0.199 (− 0.135, 0.532)

0.236

0.792 (− 4.101, 5.686)

0.742

RAAS

 Anxiety

0.009 (− 0.020, 0.039)

0.529

− 0.041 (− 0.506, 0.423)

0.856

 Close–depend

− 0.011 (− 0.027, 0.004)

0.145

− 0.167 (− 0.410, 0.076)

0.170

BSI

 Somatisationa

0.025 (0.001, 0.050)

0.043

0.059 (− 0.298, 0.416)

0.749

 Obsessive–compulsive

0.009 (− 0.014; 0.032)

0.442

0.063 (− 0.293, 0.420)

0.718

 Interpersonal sen.

0.192 (0.008, 0.053)

0.391

0.131 (− 0.254, 0.515)

0.491

 Depressiona

0.017 (− 0.017, 0.052)

0.319

0.010 (− 0.540, 0.560)

0.971

 Anxiety

0.020 (− 0.001, 0.040)

0.056

0.217 (− 0.092, 0.526)

0.160

 Hostilitya

0.010 (− 0.017, 0.038)

0.454

0.231 (− 0.192, 0.654)

0.272

 Phobic anxiety

0.014 (0.000, 0.027)

0.046

0.043 (− 0.173, 0.259)

0.688

 Paranoid ideationa

0.008 (− 0.004, 0.021)

0.183

0.109 (− 0.090, 0.308)

0.269

 Psychoticism

0.092 (0.002, 0.044)

0.653

0.211 (− 0.118, 0.540)

0.199

 GSI

0.022 (0.005, 0.038)

0.012

0.138 (− 0.135, 0.411)

0.306

 PST

0.278 (− 0.091, 0.647)

0.136

2.823 (− 2.988, 8.633)

0.327

 PSDI

0.020 (0.006, 0.033)

0.006

0.109 (− 0.119, 0.34)

0.337

  1. Italic shows statistically significant results
  2. PTSD posttraumatic stress disorder, CTQ-SF Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form, RAAS Revised Adult Attachment Scale, BSI Brief Symptom Inventory, Interpersonal sen. Interpersonal sensitivity, GS Global Severity Index, PST Positive Symptom Total, PSDI Positive Symptom Distress Index
  3. aThe variable was log-transformed