There were interesting and substantial gender differences as well. In 10 of the 13 symptoms, a greater number of women than men reported their occurrence. Twice as many women as men reported feeling more nervous, trying to make themselves less noticeable, fearing more trouble, losing a friendship, and having difficulties with sleep and weight. Number of incidents . The number of ethnoviolent or sexually harassing events to which students are exposed seems to have an important effect on the number of symptoms they suffer.
Correlations are positive but quite low.
The difference in the effect of a single incident and two incidents was substantial, but the difference between two incidents and three or more was not as powerful. This is best seen in in graphic form in Table 4.3. This table also exhibits the difference between the two categories of incidents. The largest increase, for both categories of incidents, is clearly a consequence of experiencing a second incident. In this section we explore some very tentative data about student lifestyle changes.