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PULIDO ACOSTA, Federico  e  HERRERA CLAVERO, Francisco. Validating the Fear Schedule Survey for Children II in a Primary and Secondary students sample. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2017, vol.7, n.1, pp.2627-2634. ISSN 2007-4719.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aipprr.2017.02.003.

In the current educational system, an enormous preoccupation by the low yield in the different academic areas exists, which promotes the search of new formulas of educational performance. This search cause that the pupils must learn new abilities and capacities with the purpose of conforming itself to this process in continuous evolution. From this perspective, with preoccupation by the little academic profits, the enormous importance is put of relief that can get to have the emotions and their suitable control for the improvement of himself. Socio-emotional states are starting to become more relevant and are now part of a reality in the field of Education. In this field there is high interest in emotional education programs, especially in earlier stages. These programs must be evaluated to check this efficiently. The objective of this paper is to validate a questionnaire to assess Fear, using as reference the Fear Survey Schedule for Children II (FSSC-II) (Ascensio et al., 2012) aimed at a sample of students from Primary to the end of Secondary Education. We focused on 961 participants from 8 different centers (4 schools and 4 high schools) that clearly reflect the city’s pluricultural features. Considering age we focused on children from 6 to 18 years old. Considering gender, the 46.6% of them are boys and the 53.4% are girls. If we consider culture and custom religion, 66.3% are Muslims and 33.7% Christians. The technique used in this survey is a test developed to assess Fear (FSSC-II) adapted for its use in the Spanish language by Ascensio et al. (2012). The results show high levels of reliability. Our expectations about dimensions (5) were confirmed for the questionnaire. There are positive correlations between totals and the dimensions of the questionnaire. Therefore this questionnaire is an appropriate tool to evaluate the Fear in a teenager sample in our context.

Palavras-chave : Emotions; Fear; Emotional development; Assessment tool; Emotional education.

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