Abstract Oleksyuk Z. Yak. 1 1 PhD Student of Academician Y. A. Buketov Karaganda State University. To the question of neurotization of preschool age children One of the symptoms of neurosis in preschool children is fear. Insufficient research of the
characteristics of fears in childhood does not allow to effectively determine their influence on the further
development of the personality of the child and the results of his activities. In our opinion, research in this
area will help solve a number of problems of preschool children. The study is aimed at comparative-age
study of forms of borderline mental disorders in children at different stages of mental development. Fears
have been revealed in preschool children aged from 3 years 8 months up to 5 years 5 months with the
help of A. I. Zakharov's method "Children's fears". The frequency, content and number of fears have been
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revealed. The increase in the number and intensity of fears correlates with the level of neurotization.
Statistical data on the number of fears in different have been presented.