Croake J W, Myers K M, Singh A
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.
Int J Aging Hum Dev. 1988;26(2):139-46. doi: 10.2190/G072-NTGC-T3P4-LJDA.
This article reports one of the first studies of adult fears, specifically in an elderly population. Results indicated that older women expressed greater fearfulness than older men, a sex differential also observed in children and adolescents. When compared to other adult groups, significant differences were noted on several categories of fears. The elderly group ranked aging and sickness as their foremost fears, although the absolute degree of fearfulness did not differ from the comparison groups. Considered with previous investigations, these results suggest that some fears may change or intensify over the lifespan, and that within each period females report greater fearfulness than males. Additionally, this article describes a new entity, "fisity," which accounts for the popularity and the intensity of fears in a single measure.
本文报道了首批针对成年人恐惧，特别是老年人群体恐惧的研究之一。结果表明，老年女性比老年男性表现出更大的恐惧，这种性别差异在儿童和青少年中也有观察到。与其他成年群体相比，在几类恐惧方面存在显著差异。老年群体将衰老和疾病列为首要恐惧，尽管恐惧的绝对程度与对照组并无不同。结合之前的调查，这些结果表明，一些恐惧可能会在一生中发生变化或加剧，并且在每个阶段女性报告的恐惧程度都高于男性。此外，本文描述了一个新的概念，即“恐惧度”，它用单一指标解释了恐惧的普遍性和强度。
