phobic disorders among students in tehran

objective : this study examined forty nine instances of phobic adolescents pheromena classified in the following seven categories: school phobia, agoraphobia, zoophobia, claustrophobia, social phobia, physician fear, exam anxiety. method: the subjects were 120 female and 120 male high-school and pre-university students selected through random cluster sampling. the data were analyzed through descriptive method and t-test. findings: the findings indicate that social phobia are on the top of the rank of other phobias hierarchically followed by zoophobia, physician phobia, school phobia, agoraphobia and phenomena ranked respectively. notably, the scores obtained by female students were higher than males both in the number of phobic instances and in the intensity of the condition.