Conceptual bases of research of a verbal and nonverbal pattern of children’s fears

The article presents the results of theoretical and experimental research on emotionalstates, in particular, on fears that worry young school-aged children. Theapproach used to study this phenomenon comprises quantitatively-qualitative,frequency-intensive, existential, micro- and macro surrounding, moral and selfregulationdimensions. Substantial characteristics of children’s fears, self-controlof young school-aged children, and ways of coping with fears in various conditionsof social situations of development are considered. The studied spectrumof emotions young school-aged children experience in everyday situations (athome, at school, during their leisure time) is described. Study on verbal and nonverbalpatterns of fears of young school-aged children is presented. The originalstructural questionnaire developed by the author and the picturesque test composedthe research apparatus. In a majority of drawings children tend to “counterbalance”the image of their fear with some additional images containing positiveelements (positive plot). This fi nding confi rms the assumption previously madeby the author of the immanent nature of self-regulating processes that regulatecoping with fear.