Presenter(s)

Julia Fabian, Julia Johnson

Comments

9:00-10:15, Kennedy Union Ballroom

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Description

The Dayton Kids Study is a five-year longitudinal study examining psychosocial markers of risk vs resilience following traumatic events among 122 families in the Dayton area. Through established measures, the study asks both children and parents to report on their exposure to stress and trauma, symptoms of psychopathology, coping strategies, and family factors. In addition, families provide saliva samples at each checkpoint for further epigenetic analysis. Understanding how children and their caregivers may similarly or differently perceive adverse childhood events is critical to research examining biological and psychological predictors of outcomes. Concordance with respect to trauma exposure and trauma-related symptoms is limited. By examining the rates of concordance from baseline data in the Dayton Kids Study, researchers aim to gain insight on the effect of adverse childhood experiences on their wellbeing. This study aims to examine rates of concordance in two measures of trauma exposure: the Community Violence Exposure (CVE) and the UCLA PTSD Reaction Index (UCLA). Based on prior literature, we believe there will be low levels of caregiver-child concordance on these measures, with caregivers overreporting children’s exposure to trauma and their symptomatology.

Publication Date

4-23-2025

Project Designation

Independent Research

Primary Advisor

Lucy J. Allbaugh

Primary Advisor's Department

Psychology

Keywords

Stander Symposium, College of Arts and Sciences

Institutional Learning Goals

Critical Evaluation of Our Times; Diversity; Community

Examining the Correlation of Parent-Child Questionnaire Responses on Trauma Exposure and PTSD Symptomatology

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