ABSTRACT
Recent investigations of college students’ self-reported fear have shown that such self-descriptions are relatively reliable (Geer, 1965), have some predictive power with respect to behavioral measures (Geer, 1965; Lanyon and Manosevitz, 1966), correlate moderately with instruments which purport to measure conceptually related dispositions (Geer, 1965; Grossberg and Wilson, 1965), and show that men regularly report themselves to be less fearful than women (Geer, 1965; Grossberg and Wilson, 1965; Manosevitz and Lanyon, 1965). The self-reported fear of persons other than college students and assessment of fears relating to the realistic stresses of modern life are among the important problems to which little research has been directed. The present study was specifically designed to initiate exploration of these two issues. 1
