title: Deaf and hard of hearing children and adolescents in China: their fears and anxieties.
abstract: The study examined the fears and anxieties of Chinese deaf and hard of hearing children and adolescents, and the ability of parents and teachers to report the presence of these fears and anxieties. Chinese deaf youth are at risk due to a lack of trained teachers, an overemphasis on oral education in schools, negative stereotypes, and parental overprotectiveness. The deaf children and adolescents in the study reported significantly higher levels of total fears, total anxieties, fear of the unknown, fear of injury and small animals, fear of medical procedures, and concentration anxiety than their hearing counterparts. Girls reported more total fears, fear of the unknown, fear of minor injury and small animals, and fear of failure and criticism than boys. Parents showed a better ability than teachers to confirm these reports of fears and anxieties. Implications and directions for future studies are presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Huijun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Frances
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Prevatt
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D001007:Anxiety / Q000208:ethnology*; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002681:China; D004519:Education, Special; D005178:Faculty; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D019986:Persons with Hearing Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D002666:Psychology, Child; D057566:Self Report; D013240:Stereotyping; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D055815:Young Adult