Winer G A
Child Dev. 1982 Oct;53(5):1111-33.
This paper is a review of the empirical literature dealing with the fearful responses of normal children to dental experiences. The first part of the paper reviews 4 major ways of measuring children's fearful behavior, namely, through behavioral rating scales, self-report measures, projective techniques, and physiological measures. The next section of the paper, dealing with incidence of dental fear and age changes, makes the point that disruptive dental behaviors are seen in relatively few children, with marked diminutions in anxiety occurring in the preschool years. Correlates of dental anxiety and experimental studies of dental fear are reviewed in the final portions of the paper.
本文是一篇关于正常儿童对牙科经历恐惧反应的实证文献综述。文章第一部分回顾了测量儿童恐惧行为的4种主要方法，即通过行为评定量表、自我报告测量、投射技术和生理测量。文章的下一部分讨论了牙科恐惧的发生率和年龄变化，指出在相对较少的儿童中会出现干扰性的牙科行为，并且在学龄前焦虑会显著减少。文章的最后部分回顾了牙科焦虑的相关因素以及牙科恐惧的实验研究。
