To assess children's behavioral responses to stress, a behavior rating scale was developed, the Stress Response Scale (SRS). The purpose of this study was to gather SRS data on a population of 595 Egyptian children (aged 5 yrs-14 yrs 11 mo) to examine differences between them and 857 similar-aged US counterparts in terms of the typical behavioral responses to stress they might manifest. The results show, with one exception, no significant differences between the samples as to the overall magnitude of behavioral deviance or the type of pattern manifested. The exception was found in the case of the dependent behavioral pattern. On this scale, all 3 age groups of girls in the US sample, and 2 of the 3 age groups of boys in that sample, scored significantly higher than their Egyptian cohorts.