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The article introduces two interview methods for studying young children' fears, applied in separate studies with representative samples of children aged 5-6 in Finland ( N = 222) and Estonia ( N = 117). The semi-structured interview was based on the question, `What things are you afraid of?' The article describes the interview scheme as well as the interview process. The picture-aided interview was designed on the basis of the Fear Survey Schedule for Children - Revised (FSSC-R). The semistructured interviews showed that young children are capable of expressing a much wider range of fears (e.g. television programmes) than had been assumed earlier. The picture-aided interviews revealed more fears related to social relations than did the semi-structured interviews. Both methods are recommended for research use.
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