In recent times, Australian children have been exposed to a range of frightening images of war and terrorism in the media. To determine the possible impact of such distal events, fears were measured in a sample of 220 children aged 6 to 12 years using the Fear Survey Schedule for Children (FSSC-R) as well as a free option method. On the FSSC-R, the type and intensity of children’s fears were similar to previous studies conducted over the past two decades, with being hit by a car, bombs and being unable to breathe producing the most fear. By contrast, spontaneous responses indicated that children’s greatest fear was of animals. Surprisingly few children mentioned war and terrorism without prompting. The findings suggest that concerns about A...
The Fear Survey Schedule for Children-Revised (FSSC-R) is a widely used self-report questionnaire th...
The aims of the study are to examine; whether children perceive television news as real, whether mot...
Item does not contain fulltextUsing telephone interviews with a random sample of Dutch children betw...
Ninety-two South Australian high-school students (mean age = 15.2 years) responded to a self-report ...
This report outlines significant safety concerns faced by Australian children of today, drawing on r...
Increasingly, the Internet and global media are exposing children to images of war, disaster and ter...
Recent acts of terrorism have emphasised the need for research to further establish not only the nat...
The history, politics, and psychology of fear have had extensive press since the attack on the World...
Using telephone interviews among a random sample of 537 Dutch children aged 7–12 years old, we inves...
Using telephone interviews among a random sample of 537 Dutch children aged 7-12 years old, we inves...
The Fear Survey Schedule for Children-Revised (FSSC-R) is a widely used self-report questionnaire th...
This report examines the experiences of modern childhood through the results of an online survey und...
After introductory material focusing on the nature of children's awareness of nuclear weapons, ...
The recent attacks in Paris are the latest in a long list of events whose blanket coverage on TV has...
Abstract In this study we examined reactions to 3 news events (September 11 terrorist attacks, Summe...
The Fear Survey Schedule for Children-Revised (FSSC-R) is a widely used self-report questionnaire th...
The aims of the study are to examine; whether children perceive television news as real, whether mot...
Item does not contain fulltextUsing telephone interviews with a random sample of Dutch children betw...
Ninety-two South Australian high-school students (mean age = 15.2 years) responded to a self-report ...
This report outlines significant safety concerns faced by Australian children of today, drawing on r...
Increasingly, the Internet and global media are exposing children to images of war, disaster and ter...
Recent acts of terrorism have emphasised the need for research to further establish not only the nat...
The history, politics, and psychology of fear have had extensive press since the attack on the World...
Using telephone interviews among a random sample of 537 Dutch children aged 7–12 years old, we inves...
Using telephone interviews among a random sample of 537 Dutch children aged 7-12 years old, we inves...
The Fear Survey Schedule for Children-Revised (FSSC-R) is a widely used self-report questionnaire th...
This report examines the experiences of modern childhood through the results of an online survey und...
After introductory material focusing on the nature of children's awareness of nuclear weapons, ...
The recent attacks in Paris are the latest in a long list of events whose blanket coverage on TV has...
Abstract In this study we examined reactions to 3 news events (September 11 terrorist attacks, Summe...
The Fear Survey Schedule for Children-Revised (FSSC-R) is a widely used self-report questionnaire th...
The aims of the study are to examine; whether children perceive television news as real, whether mot...
Item does not contain fulltextUsing telephone interviews with a random sample of Dutch children betw...