TITLE:
Social Inheritance of Fear
AUTHORS:
Manol Manolov, Ivan Stoyanov, Zlatinka Georgieva
KEYWORDS:
Social Inheritance, Fear, Developmental Psychology, Emotional Development
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.9,
September
1,
2020
ABSTRACT: Fear exists regardless of the person’s level of development or the
culture of a people. Although it is an inevitable part of our lives, it does
not mean that we are constantly aware of this fact. On the other hand, it seems
always present and ready to invade our minds at any moment. Throughout our
life, we learn to avoid it by applying various techniques and methods to push
it away, to suppress or deny it. When we grow up, we have the mechanisms to
deal with our fears, but just when we have successfully dealt with at least one
of them, often a new one appears, and we sometimes go into a vicious circle
that is difficult to change. Then the question arises of where do children’s
fears come from? The present study in its first part presents an attempt for
theoretical representation related to the experience of fear. In the other part,
it presents an empirical study conducted among 126 parents. The research
searches the link between the personal characteristics of parents and the
temperamental characteristics of children. It’s related to the theory of social
inheritance which is part of project funded under Contract No КП-06-M25/4 of
12.17.2018 concluded with the Research Fund of the Republic of Bulgaria. The
report only looks at the connections that concern social inheritance of fear.