Los tipos de miedo prevalentes por generación y por sexo

Abstract

The objective of the investigation was to identify the most frequent fears in children, adolescents and adults, men and women. One worked with 210 participants, distributed equitably, the age average is of 11 years in children, 15 in adolescents and 45 in adults. The fears passed in the three generations turn around the dark, to the animal, the imaginary beings, the figures of authority, the solitude, scholastic situations, before some accident and to the own death and of dear beings. The infantile fears of the present and the future focus to real threats of death, solitude, punishment and deficiencies. The adolescent men are scared to the figures of authority, the school, as well as to the future, whereas the women consider that the intra-family violence, the possibility of a pregnancy and of not concluding a university race are situations that bring about fear to them. The adult men are scared to fail and not to fulfill the masculine roll of being the suppliers of the home and to protect their family, whereas the women worry about the solitude, the death and to fulfill the paper of mothers.