Empirical fear profiles among American youth

Fears among children can range from relatively innocuous fears of simple objects to significant phobias that affect youths’ everyday functioning in the home, school, or community environments. This study investigated empirically derived fear profiles among American youth ages 7–19 ( N =556 ). Based...

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Published in:Behaviour research and therapy Vol. 41; no. 9; pp. 1093 - 1103
Main Authors: Schaefer, B.A., Watkins, M.W., Burnham, J.J.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2003
Elsevier Science
Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Adult
Age
Age Factors
Assessment
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child development
Children
Children & youth
Contours
Demography
Developmental psychology
Ethnic Groups
Ethnicity
Fear
Fear & phobias
Fear - psychology
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gender
Humans
Logistic Models
Male
Membership
Odds Ratio
Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data
Profiles
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
Self-reports
United States
Youth
United States
United States > US
Self-reports
Fear
Children
Adolescents
Assessment
Human
School age
Sociodemographic factor
Adolescent
Sex
Emotion emotionality
Child
Age
Ethnic group
Preadolescent
ISSN:0005-7967, 1873-622X
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Summary:Fears among children can range from relatively innocuous fears of simple objects to significant phobias that affect youths’ everyday functioning in the home, school, or community environments. This study investigated empirically derived fear profiles among American youth ages 7–19 ( N =556 ). Based upon youths’ scores on the 5 factors of the Fear Survey Schedule for Children—II (FSSC—II; Burnham & Gullone (Behav Res Ther, 35, 1997)), multistage Euclidean grouping was applied and produced 5 replicable fear cluster profiles with unique contours. Logistic regression odds ratios revealed specific associations of profile group membership with demographic characteristics such as child age, sex, and ethnicity.
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ISSN:0005-7967
1873-622X
DOI:10.1016/S0005-7967(02)00258-9