Relationship between fear and emotionality

The purpose of this article is to present the results of theoretical and empirical research of the ratio of indicators of actual fears and qualitative indicators of emotionality. Theoretical analysis of the notion of " fear" is given. Met hod s . "Questionnaire of the hierarchical structure of personality fears" by Yu. Shcherbatykh and E. Ivleva and "Four-modal test-questionnaire of emotionality" by O.P. Sannikova were used for empirical research. Re s ult s . The correlation analysis between the indicators of actual fears and the qualitative indicators of emotionality revealed positive significant connections with the modalities "anger", " fear", "sadness", and with the modality " joy" revealed negative significant connections. Conclu s ion s . Fear is considered as an emotional state that reflects the protective biological response of a person or animal while experiencing a real or imagined danger to their health and well-being. Emotionality is understood as a property of personality and is considered as an established, integral, structural formation, characterized by a certain combination of its different levels of indicators. Emotionality is understood as a property of personality and is considered as an established, integral, structural formation, characterized by a certain combination of its different levels of indicators. This study examines the influence of qualitative characteristics of emotionality, which contain information about modality and a sign of emotional experience, on the manifestations of fear.This study considers the influence of qualitative characteristics of emotionality, which contain information about modality and a sign of emotional experience, on the manifestations of fear. Empirical data were collected using the following psychodiagnostic methods: "Questionnaire of the hierarchical structure of actual fears of the personality" (HSAF) by Yu. Shcherbatykh and E. Ivleva; "Four-modal test-questionnaire of emotionality" by O.P. Sannikova. According to the results of the correlation analysis between the indicators of actual fears and qualitative indicators of emotionality, positive significant connections have been established with the modalities "anger", " fear", "sadness", and negative significant connections have been established with the modality " joy".