Flygrädsla i Sverige. En enkätundersökning av svenskars rädsla för trafikflyg som transportmedel

Abstract

Föreliggande arbete avser en enkätundersökning av svenskars flygrädsla. Tvätusen svenska med-borgare i äldrarna 18–75 är erhöll en enkät med 25 frägor angäende flygrädsla och hur denna päverkar viljan att utnyttja trafikflyget.

Christer L. Nordlund: A questionnaire of Swedes' fear of flying. During the spring and summer of 1982, 1 992 randomly selected individuals received a written questionnaire concerning fear of flying. 1 484 individuals returned the questionnaire and 169 of the remainders were interviewed by telephone and were included in the material. 76% of the individuals in the material had flown one or more times, while 6% reported that because of fear they had never flown. 17% reported that they could not consider flying, owing to fear, or for other reasons. 10% answered that they experienced relatively great or greater fear when flying, while 15% answered that they felt the same when thinking about flying. When asked about different parts of a flight, 25% revealed that they felt relatively great or greater fear during some part of it, and about 30% reported the same level of fear when clear air turbulence was encountered. The prevalence of flight fear depends upon the definition used. If “daring to fly” is used as a criterion, 10% of the Swedish population, i.e. 600 000 Swedes, can be considered to be afraid of flying. Given that flying is quite safe (from a statistical point of view), anyone experiencing discomfort during a flight could be regarded as demonstrating fear of flying. With this criterion, 50% of the interviewed individuals (= 3 000 000 Swedes) could be regarded as apprehensive about flying.