Feared stimuli are expected in specific situations: the use of situationalism and fear expectancy in a self-report measurement of fears.
The Wildland Fear Expectancy Scale was developed to measure apprehension about visiting forested areas. The scale was administered to 1,337 middle-school and high-school students in the southeastern United States. Use of an expectancy approach and reference to a specific situation (day trip to a forest) produced results that diverged from studies that used generic fear surveys, although direct comparisons are not possible. The catastrophic event items were ranked lowest in contrast to general fear surveys, in which they are often at the top of rankings.
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Texas A & M University, USA.
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004190:Disasters; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students