Do fears change with age?!

[ashley83]

So i have done my experiment and i have my results but i was wondering if there were any professional testing if young people and adults fear different things. If anyone knows what the answor it would be great if you can tell me. Thank you.

[hiramuzammal]

There have been studies that examine if fear of crime increases with age
Ironically, the results indicate that younger people "are more likely than older persons to be afraid of most types of crime":
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... t=Citation

Also, there were studies that examined children's fears as they grew older: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... t=Citation
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2625373
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... t=Citation
Overall, the results show that with age, fearfulness (of the same things) decreases.

I didn't find any research that compared younger vs. older people's fears though.

[ashley83]

Wow. Thank you so much. That really helped me out. I couldn`t find anything before.