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Demographic Features of Adult Fears

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  • James W. Croake
  • Kathleen M. Myers
  • Abe Singh

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This paper reports one of the first investigations of adult fears. Demographic variables included: sex, race, college degree status, and sibling position for a broadly defined middle class population. Additionally, it reports a new entity, "fisity" which accounts for both the popularity and strength of a fear in a single calculated measure. Women, in general, endorsed greater overall fearfulness than men, but this differential was not observed in an all white subsample. This male-female difference is similar to trends noted in studies of children's foars. However, college degree status did not correlate with fearfulness for the total population, or for an all white male subsample; although non-degreed females did express significantly greater fearfulness than their degreed cohort. Finally, increasing birth order in the sibship also correlated with increasing fearfulness.

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  • James W. Croake & Kathleen M. Myers & Abe Singh, 1987. "Demographic Features of Adult Fears," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 33(4), pages 285-293, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:33:y:1987:i:4:p:285-293
    DOI: 10.1177/002076408703300405
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    1. Kathleen M. Myers & James W. Croake & Abe Singh, 1987. "Adult of Four Ethnic Groupsi Whites, Chinese, Japanese and '' Boat People ''," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 33(1), pages 56-67, March.
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