Fears in American, Australian, Chinese, and Nigerian children and adolescents: a cross-cultural study
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Cultures promoting obedience, compliance, and inhibition serve to increase the levels of fear in children and adolescents. The fears of childhood and adolescence vary between different cultural contexts. A survey exploring this variation in American, Australian, Chinese, and Nigerian children and adolescents shows differences in the number, pattern, content, and level of fears. Nigerian children and adolescents show higher levels of fear than their American, Chinese and Australian counterparts, who varied very little. However, sex differences across different cultures exist in the pattern and content of fears.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1996
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The stability and prediction of fears in Chinese children and adolescents: a one-year follow-up
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A study of stability in number, level, content and pattern of fears over a one-year period in Chinese children and adolescent aged 7-17 shows moderate stability of fear and points at sex and age factors to determine stability. The perception of fear level and controllability and modifiability of the fears are important determinants of later reported levels of fear. The study proposes a developmental-cultural hypothesis to substantiate these findings.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1995
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Annotation: treatment of Childhood Phobias
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Behavioral strategies used in the treatment of childhood phobias were evaluated. Among these strategies are systematic desensitisation, emotive imagery, flooding, modelling, contingency management, cognitive-behavioral strategies, and behavioral family interventions. Exposure-based interventions were found effective for multiphobic children. The family was emphasized to have a major role in the treatment of childhood phobias.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1997
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