Ondřej Bouša

Interparental conflict appraisal and general fearfulness in middle adolescence

The purpose of this study is to analyze relationships between interparental conflict and experienced fears in middle adolescents. A total of 534 fifteen-year-old adolescents from the European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (49% girls) completed measures of interparental conflict (Childrens Perceptions of Interparental Conflict Scale) and their subjective experienced fears (free-response method Cake of Fear). Multiple linear regression analyses indicate that sex significantly predicted the number of reported fears as did feelings of own efficacy in coping with interparental conflict. Girls tend to report more fears and higher conflict frequency, intensity, and threat than boys; the growing feeling of coping efficacy with parental conflict decreases the amount of reported fears only in the group of boys.

Fears in Czech Adolescents A Longitudinal Study

The present study investigates developmental patterns of fear in adolescence. It is based on longitudinal data collected as a part of the European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (ELSPAC) project. A total of 186 Czech adolescents (43% girls) were assessed repeatedly at the age of 11, 13, and 15 years. The free-response method was used to examine individual-specific fears. Fear occurrence, content, and intensity changes in 19 general fear categories in the age groups studied were investigated. The findings reveal that the most common fears of 11- and 13-year-old adolescents were related to school. However, at the age of 15, the most common fear category was the fear of losing someone, or the fear of something happening to somebody. Furthermore, we found that developmental trajectories of fear categories are characterized by a transition from the specific and concrete fears of childhood to the more general and abstract fears of adolescents.

Dotazník rodičovského přijetí a odmítnutí/kontroly: Recenze metody

Z teoretickeho hlediska se jedna o velmi dobře zakotvený nastroj, z metodologickeho hlediska je aktualně akceptovatelný s některými výhradami. I přes ně je možne dle meho miněni využivat nastroj nejen výzkumně, ale take v psychologicke praxi. Nastroj by měl být aplikovan spise zkusenými psychology, tj. odborniky s ukonceným formalnim vzdělanim v oboru psychologie a jistou zkusenosti s praci s rodinnými systemy.