Death in the Lives of Children

Mahon, Margaret M.

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“…The finding that Pakistani Muslim children's explanations of what causes death centred around illness, old age, or hunger, as opposed to shootings, wars, or explosions – the preferred explanations of British children – further supports the view that children's culturally specific experiences influence the way they reason about aspects of death. British children are likely to be influenced by exposure to media, such as books, cartoons, films, and computer games, where death is often portrayed as a result of violent events, rather than by direct exposure to ill, dying, or dead people (Mahon, ; Wenestram & Wass, ). In contrast, Pakistani Muslim children living in rural and deprived areas in Pakistan, who have limited access to Western media, are more likely to have a more realistic view that death usually results from illness or old age.…”

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British and Pakistani children's understanding of death: Cultural and developmental influences

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Ashraf

et al. 2014

British J of Dev Psycho

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This study explored British and Pakistani 4-to 7-year-olds' (N = 188) understanding of death. The aim was to examine possible influences on the acquisition of the subcomponents of the death concept by investigating how they are understood by children of different ages and cultural and religious backgrounds. Three groups of children were compared: White British and British Muslim living in London, and Pakistani Muslim living in rural Pakistan. In line with previous research (Slaughter, 2005, Aust. Psychol., 40(3), 179), irreversibility of death was one of the first subcomponents to be acquired, while causality was the last. The two groups of British children shared many similarities in their understanding of inevitability, applicability, irreversibility, and cessation. Pakistani Muslim children understood irreversibility earlier than did children in both British groups. In all three cultural groups, children's responses demonstrated very limited understanding of causality. Our findings support the view that aspects of a mature understanding of death develop between the ages of 4 and 7 years and that the process of understanding death as a biological event is, to a great extent, universal. They also suggest that aspects of children's reasoning are influenced by culturally specific experiences, particularly those arising from living in rural versus urban settings.

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British and Pakistani children's understanding of death: Cultural and developmental influences

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Ashraf

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British J of Dev Psycho

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“…Parents and children draw from different types of resources, including religion, to process and grieve the family member’s death. Religiosity and frequent parent–child communication about death are associated with positive outcomes for bereaved parents and children (Mahon, 2011; Noppe & Noppe, 1997; Renaud, Engarhos, Schleifer, & Talwar, 2013).…”

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Mothers’ perceptions of the role of religion in parent–child communication about a death in the family.

Zajac¹,

Boyatzis²

2021

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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The present study was a descriptive exploration of the nature of parent-child communication about death through qualitative analysis of mothers' perceptions of how religious views shape conversations about death and how such conversations may be beneficial. We hypothesized that bereaved parents' religious and spiritual views would shape parent-child communication about death and that parents would describe numerous benefits of discussing death with children. Almost 80% of parent-child dyads discussed death at least once a week, and children initiated approximately half of these conversations. Qualitative analyses revealed that mothers perceived their religious beliefs as shaping conversations about death and grief as an individualized journey. A majority of mothers described emotional, social, and intellectual benefits of parent-child conversations about death. Hope was a common theme in mothers' responses while the themes of God's plan and a loving God were less frequent.

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“…Standardteorien fra Jean Piaget om stadier i barns kognitive utvikling (Piaget, 1929) er godt kjent og mye brukt teori innenfor sorgforskningen (Rosengren et al, 2014). Utviklingspsykologisk kunnskap om kognitiv utvikling-, om de minste barnas manglende kapasitet eller ikke-ervervede kompetanse til å forstå og håndtere døden som konsept og fenomen (Rosengren et al, 2014), har blant annet blitt brukt som begrunnelse for praksiser som begrenser barns «tilgang til informasjon, diskusjon og fellesskap ved sykdom og død i familien (Mahon, 2011)» (Hogstad & Wold, 2016, p. 10).…”

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Den kvalitative psykologiens kraft til å forstyrre fenomenene

Hogstad

2022

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Psykologisk forskning på mennesket tilbyr selvforståelser som kan fungere selvoppfyllende og dermed være med å (re)produsere de psykologiske fenomenene vi forsker på. Kunnskapsproduksjonen har helt reelle konsekvenser for individ og samfunn, og forskere har et etisk ansvar i å være kritiske i sin forskning og jobbe for å unngå at forskningen skader mennesker, samfunn, natur og miljø. Forfatter av denne artikkelen har tidligere vært opptatt av hvordan psykologisk forskning kan bidra til å reprodusere kunnskap om barns sorg som støtter praksiser som kan fungere ekskluderende for de yngste barna. Denne artikkelen argumenterer for at den kvalitative psykologien bærer i seg en kraft til å «forstyrre» de psykologiske fenomenene vi forsker på heller enn å reprodusere dem, og at denne kraften særlig ligger i analysen og med den i anvendelse av teori. I artikkelen søker forfatteren å demonstrere den forstyrrende kraften i kvalitativ psykologi ved å anvende to ulike teoretisk informerte lesninger av et empirisk eksempel om barns sorguttrykk fra intervjuer med barnehagelærere. De to forskjellige «analytikkene» utvikles fra to ulike teoretiske perspektiver fra utviklingspsykologi, Piagets konstruktivistiske teori om kognitiv utvikling og sosiokulturell utviklingsteori. Lesningene demonstrerer hvordan det teoretiske perspektivet har konsekvenser for hvordan vi avgrenser og lokaliserer psykologiske fenomen, hva vi antar intervjutranskript kan representere av fenomenet og for hva slags kunnskap vi ender opp med å produsere.

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Death in the Lives of Children

Cited by 7 publications

References 84 publications

British and Pakistani children's understanding of death: Cultural and developmental influences

British and Pakistani children's understanding of death: Cultural and developmental influences

Mothers’ perceptions of the role of religion in parent–child communication about a death in the family.

Den kvalitative psykologiens kraft til å forstyrre fenomenene

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