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Latent Classes Of Childhood Poly-Victimization And Associations With Suicidal Behavior Among Adult Trauma Victims: Moderating Role Of Anger, Ruby Charak, Brianna M. Byllesby, Michelle E. Roley, Meredith A. Claycomb, Tory A. Durham, Jana Ross, Cherie Armour, Jon D. Elhai

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The aims of the present study were first to identify discrete patterns of childhood victimization experiences including crime, child maltreatment, peer/sibling victimization, sexual violence, and witnessing violence among adult trauma victims using latent class analysis; second, to examine the association between class-membership and suicidal behavior, and third to investigate the differential role of dispositional anger on the association between class-membership and suicidal behavior. We hypothesized that those classes with accumulating exposure to different types of childhood victimization (e.g., poly-victimization) would endorse higher suicidal behavior, than the other less severe classes, and those in the most severe class with higher anger …