出版社：Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Department of Social Work
摘要：Just like adults, children and youth are exposed to traumatic events. The existing classifications of traumatic events in childhood differentiate between events which do not include abuse and neglect in the narrow sense from those that do. The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between exposure to non-abusive traumatic events in childhood and some aspects of psychosocial functioning in youth. Exposure to following traumatic events was examined: assault with an object/weapon, rape, murder, bomb explosion, serious illness of a parent. The research was conducted on 4177 teenage boys and girls. The psychosocial functioning of boys and girls is affected more by traumatic events that pose a personal threat, and less by events posing a threat to others (serious illness of a parent and witnessing murder). The effects of such events on multiple aspects of psychosocial functioning are more common in girls than in boys. The research has shown that boys who have not experienced a non-abusive traumatic event do not significantly differ from those who have experienced one event, but differ from those who experienced several traumatic events. The girls who experienced one non-abusive traumatic event differ from those that have not experienced any traumatic events. After one or more traumatic events, girls tend to be more insecurely attached, lonelier within the family, and have poorer academic performance. As far as boys are concerned, the connection with difficulties in psychosocial functioning appears after two or more events.
