Croake J W, Myers K M, Singh A
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle 98195.
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 1987 Winter;33(4):285-93. doi: 10.1177/002076408703300405.
This paper reports one of the first investigations of adult fears. Demographic variables included: sex, race, college degree status, and sibling position for a broadly defined middle class population. Additionally, it reports a new entity, "fisity" which accounts for both the popularity and strength of a fear in a single calculated measure. Women, in general, endorsed greater overall fearfulness than men, but this differential was not observed in an all white subsample. This male-female difference is similar to trends noted in studies of children's fears. However, college degree status did not correlate with fearfulness for the total population, or for an all white male subsample; although non-degreed females did express significantly greater fearfulness than their degreed cohort. Finally, increasing birth order in the sibship also correlated with increasing fearfulness.
本文报告了对成年人恐惧的首批调查之一。人口统计学变量包括：性别、种族、大学学位状况以及广义定义的中产阶级人群中的兄弟姐妹排行。此外，它报告了一个新的概念“恐惧度”，该概念在一个单一计算指标中综合考量了一种恐惧的流行程度和强度。总体而言，女性认可的总体恐惧程度高于男性，但在全白人子样本中未观察到这种差异。这种男女差异与儿童恐惧研究中指出的趋势相似。然而，大学学位状况与总体人群或全白人男性子样本的恐惧程度均无关联；尽管没有学位的女性表达出的恐惧程度明显高于有学位的同龄人。最后，在兄弟姐妹中出生顺序的增加也与恐惧程度的增加相关。
