The Common Fears and Their Origins Among Turkish Children and Adolescents

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2013-09-01

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SERIM-YILDIZ, Begum
Erdur Baker, Özgür
Bugay, Asli

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The present study aimed to investigate the common fears and their origins among children and adolescents from different age, gender, and socioeconomic levels (SES). The sample was comprised of 642 females (48.8%) and 673 males (51.2%) with a total of 1,315 participants aged between 8 and 18 (M = 13.15; SD = 3.18). The Fear interview was utilised to examine the common fears and the role of conditioning, modelling and negative information in the development of children's fears. The result showed that the most common fear in Turkey was 'God', followed by 'losing my friends' and 'going to Hell'. In addition, the findings revealed that Turkish students are more likely to learn fears by modelling rather than negative information transmission and conditioning. The results also indicated that negative information transmission had a more intensifying effect on the children and adolescents' existing fear rather than modelling and conditioning. Furthermore, multinomial logistic regression was conducted to examine the effects of age, gender and SES on the origins of fear. Results showed that age and gender were significant predictors of origins of fear.

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Fears, Origins of fears, Common fears

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/34902

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BEHAVIOUR CHANGE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1017/bec.2013.18

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Department of Educational Sciences, Article

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B. SERIM-YILDIZ, Ö. Erdur Baker, and A. Bugay, “The Common Fears and Their Origins Among Turkish Children and Adolescents,” BEHAVIOUR CHANGE, pp. 199–209, 2013, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/34902.