Childhood traumatic events are significant risk factors for psychopathology according to adult retrospective research; however, few studies examine trauma exposure and psychological symptoms in pre-adolescent children. Typically-developing children, aged 9-12 years (N = 114), were recruited from the community and selected from the Developmental Chronnecto-Genomics (Dev-CoG) study examining child development. Children completed questionnaires about traumatic life events, posttraumatic stress, anxiety, depression, dissociation, anger, and internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Parents also completed internalizing and externalizing measures. The number of traumatic events significantly correlated with symptom severity across all child-report psychological measures, but surprisingly, trauma was not correlated with any parent-report scores. Follow-up analyses revealed a significant trauma effect for internalizing and externalizing behaviors according to child self-report, but not for parent-report measures. Results indicate that childhood trauma may be a non-specific risk factor for sub-clinical psychopathology in otherwise typically-developing children. Moreover, children appear to be the most appropriate reporters of their own psychological distress.

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创伤事件与正常发育儿童的不同心理症状有关

根据成人回顾性研究，童年创伤事件是精神病理学的重要危险因素；然而，很少有研究调查青春期前儿童的创伤暴露和心理症状。从社区招募 9-12 岁 (N = 114) 的典型发育儿童，并从检查儿童发育的发育时间基因组学 (Dev-CoG) 研究中选出。儿童完成了关于创伤性生活事件、创伤后压力、焦虑、抑郁、分离、愤怒以及内化和外化行为的问卷。父母还完成了内化和外化措施。在所有儿童报告的心理测量中，创伤事件的数量与症状严重程度显着相关，但令人惊讶的是，创伤与任何父母报告的分数都没有相关性。后续分析显示，根据儿童的自我报告，对内化和外化行为有显着的创伤影响，但对父母报告的措施没有影响。结果表明，童年创伤可能是其他正常发育儿童亚临床精神病理学的非特异性风险因素。此外，儿童似乎是他们自己心理困扰的最合适的报告者。