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Children's Perceptions of Illness and Health: An Analysis of Drawings
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Mouratidi, Paraskevi-Stavroula; Bonoti, Fotini; Leondari, Angeliki – Health Education Journal, 2016
Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore possible age differences in children's perceptions of illness and health and to what extent these differ from adults' perceptions. Design: Cross-sectional design. Setting: Selected nursery and primary schools in Greece. Method: The sample consisted of 347 children aged 5-11 years and 114…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Diseases, Death, Age Differences
Development of Afterlife Beliefs in Childhood: Relationship to Parent Beliefs and Testimony
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Misailidi, Plousia; Kornilaki, Ekaterina N. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study examined the development of children's reasoning about the afterlife and its relationship with parental afterlife beliefs and testimony. A total of 123 children aged 5, 7, and 10 years were read a story describing the events that led to a person's death. After hearing the story, children were asked questions about the dead agent's…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Logical Thinking, Parents
The Development of Diachronic Thinking between 6 and 11 Years: The Case of Growth and Death
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Labrell, Florence; Stefaniak, Nicolas – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
The development of a diachronic conception of biology has rarely been explored during childhood, except by Maurice-Naville and Montangero (1992). The aim of the present study was to further explore this issue. In the course of an interview, 163 children aged between 6 and 11 expressed their diachronic conceptions of the growth and death of several…
Descriptors: Children, Biology, Child Development, Thinking Skills
Childhood, Death, and Cognitive Development
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Koocher, Gerald P. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Explored children's conceptions of death from a Piagetian framework. Significant changes in the direction of more realistic attitudes by children were noted as levels of cognitive development advanced. (DP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Development
Children's Conceptions of Death
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White, Edward; And Others – Child Development, 1978
Kindergarten through fourth graders (N=170) were tested for conservation and then interviewed following the presentation of a story about an elderly woman's death, in an attempt to assess children's understanding of 3 concepts: irrevocability, cessation of bodily processes, and universality. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Conceptual Schemes, Conservation (Concept)
The Development of the Concept of Suicide in Children.
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Normand, Claude L.; Mishara, Brian L. – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1992
Examined development of concept of suicide in 60 children. Found that 10 percent of first, 50 percent of third, and 95 percent of fifth graders had basic understanding of suicide. Attitudes toward suicide were neutral or negative. Concept of suicide was significantly related to concept of death and experiences with death and was also related to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Death
Attitudes of Children towards Aging, the Elderly, and Death & Dying as Expressed through the Arts.
Zaki, Gamal; Zaki, Sylvia – 1982
The purpose of this study was to explore the conceptions, feelings and attitudes of elementary and junior high school students toward the topics of aging, the elderly, death, and dying. To gather data, an announcement was made to all schools within the state that the Rhode Island Gerontology Center would sponsor a contest for all school children…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Art