Lane B, Gullone E
Department of Psychology, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
J Genet Psychol. 1999 Jun;160(2):194-204. doi: 10.1080/00221329909595392.
Investigations into normative fear in adolescence have indicated that the most common fears are consistently death-related and danger-related. Assessments have most commonly been made from self-reports on fear survey schedules. The aim of the present study, therefore, was to determine whether adolescents would provide responses comparable to those generated through the use of a fear survey schedule when asked to list their 3 greatest fears. A total of 439 adolescents aged 11 to 18 years (237 girls, 201 boys, 1 sex not reported) listed their greatest fears; then they completed the 78-item Fear Survey Schedule for Children-II (E. Gullone & N. J. King, 1992). Consistent with past research, the 10 most common fears generated via the fear schedule related to death and danger. However, on the whole, the self-generated fears deviated from the death and danger theme, also including fear of failure, fear of animals, and fear of the unknown. A tendency toward global responses in self-generated fears appeared to encompass the majority of specific death-related fears included in the fear schedule, thus allowing for other predominant fears to be listed among the 3 most common.
对青少年正常恐惧的调查表明，最常见的恐惧一直与死亡和危险相关。评估大多是根据恐惧调查问卷上的自我报告进行的。因此，本研究的目的是确定青少年在被要求列出他们最害怕的三件事时，给出的回答是否与通过恐惧调查问卷得出的回答相当。共有439名11至18岁的青少年（237名女孩，201名男孩，1人性别未报告）列出了他们最害怕的事情；然后他们完成了78项的儿童恐惧调查问卷第二版（E. 古洛内和N. J. 金，1992年）。与过去的研究一致，通过恐惧调查问卷得出的10种最常见的恐惧与死亡和危险有关。然而，总体而言，青少年自己列出的恐惧偏离了死亡和危险主题，还包括对失败的恐惧、对动物的恐惧以及对未知的恐惧。青少年自己列出的恐惧中出现的一种整体回答倾向似乎涵盖了恐惧调查问卷中包含的大多数与死亡相关的具体恐惧，因此使得其他主要恐惧也能被列为最常见的三种恐惧之一。
