Vandenberg B
Department of Psychology, University of Missouri-St. Louis 63121-4499.
Psychol Rep. 1993 Apr;72(2):473-4. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1993.72.2.473.
The developmental features of the fears of 112 nonretarded and 42 retarded children were examined. With development, the fears of nonretarded children became more closely aligned with real sources of threat that involve human agency and less fearful of imaginary things. The retarded children displayed patterns of fears similar to their mental-age peers rather than chronological peers and were more likely to deny being fearful than their nonretarded peers.
对112名发育正常儿童和42名智力发育迟缓儿童的恐惧发展特征进行了研究。随着年龄增长，发育正常儿童的恐惧与涉及人类行为的实际威胁源联系更为紧密，对想象事物的恐惧则减少。智力发育迟缓儿童的恐惧模式与其心理年龄相当的同龄人相似，而非实际年龄相当的同龄人，并且比发育正常的同龄人更倾向于否认自己感到恐惧。
