| One hundred twelve subjects, who were recruited from students attending Roosevelt University, participated in a test of the hypothesis that current fear of flying is built from a combined effect of classical conditioning fear augmenters (pairings of flight-related stimuli and aversive stimuli) and fear minimizers (pairings of flight-related stimuli and appetitive stimuli, as well as unpaired presentations of flight-related stimuli before and after aversive pairings) in direct, observational, and verbal modes. Subjects completed a demographics questionnaire, the Flight Anxiety Situations Questionnaire (FAS), the Current Flying Fear Questionnaire (CFF), the Flying History Questionnaire (FH), and the Fear Survey Schedule (FSS). This is a replication and extension of the study of Dygdon, Conger and Strahan (2004), with a focus on college students and flying fear. Additionally, this study sought to determine whether measures of flying fear and anxiety developed for this study are positively correlated to the FAS and FSS flying fear indicators and whether flying fear in the Roosevelt University population is greater now than it was in 1995. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)... |
