ترجمة و تقنين جدول مسح مخاوف الأطفال المعدل

Abstract EN

The current study aimed to translate and standard the revised children’s fears scale (Ollendick, 2006), and prepare it to be usable and applicable to the environment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The researcher worked on translating the scale with the help of specialists in languages and translation, and the characteristics of the psychometric scale were verified.

The sample of the study was (496) male and female children in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The results of the study indicated that the most common fear among children was fear of failure and criticism with an average of (50.9456) and a standard deviation of (9.04238).

The second dimension came in unknown fears and in the third place came the fourth dimension, which is fear of the dangers of death, and the fourth dimension came.

The fifth was medical concerns, and finally it came after fear of light wounds and reached the arithmetic mean (26.2056) and a standard deviation (5.20626).

The results of the study indicated that there were no statistically significant differences in all dimensions of fears.

The total score according to the variable (gender), and with regard to the age group, the results indicated the existence of statistically significant differences in fears in children (total score and dimensions), for those in the age group from (14-16) in the first, third, fourth and fifth dimensions and the total score of the instrument.

Followed by age group (11-13) years, ended by age group (7-10) especially in the second dimension.