Anxiety and fear of younger school age children from the perspective of children and parents

Autor	Kamila Hodková
Organisation	Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Pedagogická fakulta, Katedra pedagogiky a psychologie
Year	2013
Research type	bachelor thesis
Annotation	The aim of this thesis is to conduct a survey of children’s emotions of anxiety and fear and to compare perception of those emotions from the perspective of parents and children. The theoretical part describes the terms anxiety and fear, origin of those emotions and how they are shown. The following chapter deals with the younger school age, describes its characteristics and focuses on cognitive, emotional and social development as well as on self-concept of a child. Further there is a chapter about child anxiety and fear, with major focus on children of younger school age. This chapter describes techniques of handling the emotions and also their prevention. The closing chapter of the theoretical part is focused on how parents perceive fears of their children and how they react to them. The research is focused on how fears an anxiety are described by children and how they are perceived by their parents.
Keywords	young school age children, fear, anxiety, parents’ perception of children’s fear
Research type	qualitative
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Obor	AN Psychology
Email	evamich@pf.jcu.cz
Availability	available in the NRVDM electronic library
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Organisation	Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Pedagogická fakulta, Katedra pedagogiky a psychologie
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