Cross-Cultural Issues

Abstract

[reviews] cross-cultural research of children's [normal and abnormal] fears / children's fears vary in a predictable way with age, gender, socioeconomic class, and other individual or social variables / such data place any individual fear in context and help clinicians to determine when a fear is normal or pathological and, consequently, does or does not require intervention / [summarize] studies [that] have attempted to compare the patterns of incidence and development of fears in different populations and cultures summarizes the main methodological characteristics of [these] studies / [argues] that an important prerequisite for cross-cultural studies is the development of reliable and valid instruments that can provide a common measure in different settings, languages, and cultures / [shows] that the Revised Fear Survey Schedule for Children has good psychometric properties and has proven to be a very useful research instrument in [different] countries (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)