Instrumentos psicométricos de evaluación de miedos infantiles

Abstract

Psychometrical instruments for assessing children's fears. This paper analizes both the auto-applied and hetero-applied procedures used when evaluating the responses to children's fears. In this sense different kinds of questionnaires, inventories and scales of assessment designed for this purpose have been reviewed. Psychometric data, advantages and limitations associated with the different techniques studies have been specially stressed.