fearful
Rats handled in the first 3 weeks of life show decreased fearfulness in new environments.
There was a general fearfulness about the ability of the state to look after our health and safety.
Many of these children do not develop psychiatric symptoms despite high levels of fearfulness or frustration.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Fear & phobias
acrophobia
aerophobia
agoraphobia
aquaphobia
bogey
bogie
break out in a cold sweat
chill
claustrophobia
claustrophobic
glossophobia
hydrophobia
hydrophobic
misophonia
mortal
mysophobia
nomophobia
panic
terror
willie

Examples of fearfulness

fearfulness
The effects of fearfulness and frustration appeared to be attenuated by high levels of effortful control.
Effortful control and frustration, but not fearfulness, also predicted the development of problems between pre- and early adolescence.
In addition, consistent with previous analyses was the negative association between maternal sensitivity and child fearfulness.
However, specific aspects of temperamental difficulty such as fearfulness and anger were related to internalizing and externalizing, respectively, in both the intervention and control groups.
In the distrust example, caregivers should emotionally connect to and empathize with anger, frustration, fearfulness, and other emotions that often ride with distrust.
For 12- to 23-month-olds, difficult temperament was the sum of the positive affect and friendliness subscales (reverse scored) and the fearfulness subscale.
These symptoms may be reported either as feeling bad or worried, or they may be reported as fearfulness in the form of simple phobias.
Specifically, in adulthood, rats handled in the first 3 weeks of life show decreased fearfulness in novel environments.
In contrast, boys who were low on negative emotionality, fearfulness, and negative maternal control followed trajectories that were relatively low and nearly flat.
These adverse early care experiences have been shown to impact behavior, increasing fearfulness, reducing exploration of novel environments, and decreasing social status.
As hypothesized, the effects of fearfulness and frustration were attenuated by high levels of effortful control.
The apparent decline of the welfare state has heightened fearfulness of the consequences of poor savings outcomes.
The coercive strategy represents an effort to control caregiver behavior through angry, threatening, or coy (feigned immaturity or fearfulness) behavior.
The internal consistencies of these temperament scales were .66 and .63 for fearfulness and activity level, respectively.
Particular temperament traits may be early indicators of fearfulness or anxiety.
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