Review on understanding of death and life in childhood : Development and factors

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  • Ohi Taeko
    Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University

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  • 児童期における死と生の理解に関する研究の展望 : 発達的変化および関連する要因について
  • ジドウキ ニ オケル シ ト セイ ノ リカイ ニ カンスル ケンキュウ ノ テンボウ ハッタツテキ ヘンカ オヨビ カンレン スル ヨウイン ニ ツイテ

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This paper reviewed the studies on understanding of death and life in childhood, on the basis of the arrangement, new viewpoints for the course of researches in the future were given. First, the knowledge of development of understanding of death and life was arranged every subject such as the concept of death, concepts of animated beings and living beings, emotions and images about death and life , and attitudes toward death and life. Second, the knowledge of factors in relation to understanding of death and life was put in order every subject such as gender difference, self-esteem and development of ego, personality, individual experience, and cultural adn regionus backgrounds. Finally, the following viewpoints for the furture researches were proposed : (1) to understand death and life as the construction of cognitional, emotional, behavioral sides and of ranging over consciousness to unconsciousness, (2) to turn our attention to "inochi" which means life in Japanese, (3) to examine the relations between understandeing of death and life and various factors inclusively (especially for self-esteem, empathy, and agression).

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