A comparison of children's behaviors following three types of stressors

One purpose of this study was to examine the differences in behavior of children exposed to trauma versus no trauma. Another goal was to compare different types of traumatic events in terms of their effects on behaviors. Our analysis indicated significant differences between trauma and no trauma gro...

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Published in:Child psychiatry and human development 1995, Vol.26 (2), p.113-123
Main Authors: STOKES, S. J, SAYLOR, C. F, SWENSON, C. C, DAUGHERTY, T. K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affective Symptoms
Analysis of Variance
Anxiety disorders
Behaviour
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Abuse, Sexual - psychology
Child Behavior
Child clinical studies
Child, Preschool
Children
Disasters
Factors
Female
Humans
Life Change Events
Male
Medical sciences
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - psychology
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Traumatic life events
United States
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Summary:One purpose of this study was to examine the differences in behavior of children exposed to trauma versus no trauma. Another goal was to compare different types of traumatic events in terms of their effects on behaviors. Our analysis indicated significant differences between trauma and no trauma groups. Additional analyses indicated that those children who were allegedly sexually abused were rated as exhibiting higher levels of symptomatology on all three factors of the Pediatric Emotional Distress Scale (PEDS) as well as the Total PEDS score than the other three groups.
ISSN:0009-398X
1573-3327
DOI:10.1007/BF02353235