Children's Fears: A Developmental Comparison of Normal and Exceptional Children
- 1 September 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Genetic Psychology
- Vol. 135 (1) , 11-21
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.1979.10533412
Abstract
The fears of 133 boys and girls aged 7 to 19, classified as educable mentally retarded (EMR), trainable mentally retarded (TMR), and specific learning disabled (SLD), were ascertained through self-report data and compared with those of 106 normal children aged 6 to 12. Similar developmental trends were found in all groups, with younger children reporting more unrealistic fears than older children. When mental age was calculated for the EMR and TMR children, their developmental trends closely approximated those of the normal children. In general, exceptional children were found to have a much wider range and a greater number of fears than normal children. Most fears were found to be realistic, learned, and dependent upon the child's intellectual and maturational level.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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