I was OK with stalling in the PA28, I could even tell when the wing would drop because the instructor had to stick some rudder in. I did have trouble pulling back enough to get it to stall. All this changed wheen I went on to the PA38, I was not prepared for the vicious wing drop and got quite worries as not long after the wing dropped the nose dropped and I thought I would spin. The books made the spin sound scary. Just before my test I was taught how not to get the wing to drop in the stall this made me less apprehensive. A few months after my test I got my PA38 instructor to demo a spin - it was no where near as bad as I imagined it would be. I will always be wary of the stall and try to recover at first sign.