Present research aims to identify the relationships between fears, anxiety in adult people and perceived characteristics of
parental attitude to them in the childhood. The study involved 68 participants, aged 18–25 years old: 38 men and 30 women. We
measured fears (the questionnaire of the hierarchical structure of actual personal fears by Y. Shcherbatykh and E.Ivleva), anxiety,
frustration, aggressiveness and rigidity (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory by C. Spielberger adapted by U.Hanin, «Self-assessment
of mental states» by of H.Eysenck) and perceived characteristics of parental attitude in the childhood («Parent relationship to
a child questionnaire» by A.Varga and V. Stolin, modified by E.Romanova, M.Galimzyanova). The study revealed high level
of expression of fears among the respondents. According to correlation analysis by Spearman, the severity of fears is higher in
adults, who higher estimate such parameters of parent's attitude toward them in childhood as “symbiosis” and “authoritarian
hypersocialization”