Background: Verbal threat transmission is significant part of the etiology of fear as Rachman (1977, 1991) suggested in his three pathway theory. To test his theory, as Remmerswaal & Muris ...Show moreBackground: Verbal threat transmission is significant part of the etiology of fear as Rachman (1977, 1991) suggested in his three pathway theory. To test his theory, as Remmerswaal & Muris (2011) did, our research investigated the contribution of verbal threat information which is provided by parents to the development of children’s fear in the context of Covid-19. In order to do that, we tried to observe the relationships among the parental verbal threat information, parents’ and children’s fear of Covid-19, also, we tested whether parents’ and children’s fear of the Covid-19 were mediated by parental verbal threat transmission related to the Covid-19. Furthermore, this paper tried to depict if the different information sources in addition to the parental verbal threat information, parents’ fear of the Covid-19, children’s general fear of medical affairs, parents’ general fear of medical affairs, direct experience of children and direct experience of parents significantly contributed children’s fear of the Covid-19. Methods: Children aged between 8-18 years old (N=90) and one of their parents (N=90) completed Fear of Covid-19 Questionnaire (FCV-19), the Sources of Information about the Covid-19 Scale (SIQ) and Fear Survey Schedule for Children’s Revised version (FSSC-R; Ollendick, 1983) online. To test the mediation, we conducted multiple regression analysis using Baron and Kenny’s (1986) statistical method and to see different information sources’ contribution on children’s fear of the Covid-19, we conducted hierarchical regression. Results: We concluded that parental verbal threat information partially mediated the relationship between children’s and parents’ fear of the Covid-19 and different information sources significantly contributed to the children’s fear of the Covid-19 in addition to other predictors. Discussion: Our results provided support for Rachman’s (1977, 1991) theory which argued the existence of the verbal threat transmission. Another important area was, different information sources might contribute into fear acquisition of children. It leads other future studies that can investigate which information sources are more effective in the children’s fear acquisition.Show less