Examining the Cultural Validity of Fear Survey Schedule for Children: The Contemporary Fears of Turkish Children and Adolescents

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2013-07-01

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SERIM-YILDIZ, Begum
Erdur Baker, Özgür

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The authors examined the cultural validity of Fear Survey Schedule for Children (FSSC-AM) developed by J. J. Burnham (2005) with Turkish children. The relationships between demographic variables and the level of fear were also tested. Three independent data sets were used. The first data set comprised 676 participants (321 women and 355 men) and was used for examining factor structure and internal reliability of FSSC. The second data set comprised 639 participants (321 women and 318 men) and was used for testing internal reliability and to confirm the factor structure of FSCC. The third data set comprised 355 participants (173 women and 182 men) and used for analyses of test-retest reliability, inter-item reliability, and convergent validity for the scores of FSSC. The sum of the first and second samples (1,315 participants; 642 women and 673 men) was used for testing the relationships between demographic variables and the level of fear. Results indicated that FSSC is a valid and reliable instrument to examine Turkish children's and adolescents' fears between the ages of 8 and 18years. The younger, female, children of low-income parents reported a higher level of fear. The findings are discussed in light of the existing literature.

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Fear survey schedule for children, FSSC, Reliability, Validity

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/32759

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JOURNAL OF GENETIC PSYCHOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2012.678420

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Department of Educational Sciences, Article

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B. SERIM-YILDIZ and Ö. Erdur Baker, “Examining the Cultural Validity of Fear Survey Schedule for Children: The Contemporary Fears of Turkish Children and Adolescents,” JOURNAL OF GENETIC PSYCHOLOGY, pp. 345–365, 2013, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/32759.