Abstract
The significance of the research is determined by importance of relationship of a child with a close adult for his personality forming. The article deals with the study of actual fears structure of children and their mothers. It reveals actual fears of women leaders and those of their primary school age children. Besides, the article determines the presence and specificity of the connections between the actual fears of the women leaders and the actual fears of their primary school age children, and the parental relationship features. The article can be useful in psychological and pedagogical practice.
Highlights
Scientific and psychological study of fear, as well as emotional phenomena, in general, originates from Charles Darwin’s work “The expression of the emotions in man and animals”
The article deals with the study of actual fears structure of children and their mothers
The hypothesis put forward was following: the relationship of actual fears of mothers and their children is mediated by the characteristics of parental attitude
Summary
Scientific and psychological study of fear, as well as emotional phenomena, in general, originates from Charles Darwin’s work “The expression of the emotions in man and animals”. It is well known that his views on fear are based on two main propositions: firstly, the ability to experience fear, as an innate feature of human and animal, plays the significant role in the process of natural selection; secondly, the fact that through many generations this adaptive mechanism was developed, since the one who was the most skillful at avoiding and overcoming danger, defeated and survived (Mironenko, 1977). The issue of the adult people’s fears was first raised and examined in the works of Freud, Hinshelwood, was studied within the learning theory (Watson et al.), in humanistic theories (Husserl, Sartre, Jaspers, Perls, etc.). Fear of a specific object acts as a dread, while acting as phobias in pathological cases (Icke, 1998)
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