The study involved 80 children aged 4-6 years who have anxiety at night. They were compared with 32 normal children, the children who do not fear the dark. The researchers interviewed the children and their parents to gauge the extent of the fear.
At the time of the interview, the researchers read short stories which set the mood illustrated children to talk about fears. While the parents were asked about what were feared by their children as well as how often and how severe fears.
Then the children were presented with a questionnaire. They must assess their fears by showing a scary picture. Their parents were also presented with a questionnaire to assess their fear.
The children were also shown a real and mythical creatures pictures, then asked to decide whether the subject is merely imaginary or occur in real life. Children were also asked to distinguish between real and fantasy situations, like a thief who breaks into your home or malignant giant in the dark.
Apparently, the children are frightened more difficult to distinguish fantasy and reality than the normal children. "Children are always afraid of late night development," the researchers wrote in the study in the journal Child Psychiatry and Human Development in February 2013 edition.
The children who are more difficult to separate fact from fiction more susceptible to fear at night. The children who have a fear of excessive at night tend to confuse fantasy with reality. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | LIVESCIENCE | ISMI WAHID | KORAN TEMPO 4146]
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