fear

Introduction. The perception of death is inextricably linked with subjective experience, the feeling of the inevitability of this phenomenon. Theoretical analysis. Existential modes, such as fright, despair, fear, anxiety, actively studied in the corresponding philosophical trend, are the main aspects that determine this or that view on death in the context of personal experience of the phenomenon of the fi niteness of human existence.

The content of fears among hearing-impaired children of younger school age is analyzed in the article, the results of the comparative analysis of fears among hearing-impaired children with the content of fears among normal children are revealed. As a research toolkit the structural questionnaire of children's fears developed by the author (SQCF) and a projective technique «Draw the fear» is used. Quantitative and qualitative differences in the content of fears are revealed; the fears inherent in children hard of hearing are allocated and described.