A COMPARISON OF CHILDRENS BEHAVIORS FOLLOWING 3 TYPES OF STRESSORS

One purpose of this study was to examine the differences in behavior o f children exposed to trauma versus no trauma. Another goal was to com pare different types of traumatic events in terms of their effects on behaviors. Our analysis indicated significant differences between trau ma and no trauma groups. Additional analyses indicated that those chil dren who were allegedly sexually abused were rated as exhibiting highe r levels of symptomatology on all three factors of the Pediatric Emoti onal Distress Scale (PEDS) as well as the Total PEDS score than the ot her three groups.