What can we learn from a cake?

Cohen, E.

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“…The themes that emerged from our research are common to those that generally appear in connection with the reactions of people undergoing a continuously stressful event (Cohen and Gadassi, 2009; Cohen and Serdtse, 2014). As such, our breakdown of the children’s reaction to the pandemic into their sense of its manageability, comprehensibility, and meaning aligns with a strand of research that uses the salutogenic approach (Bauer et al, 2020; Mana and Sagy, 2020).…”

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Kindergarten children’s reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic: Creating a sense of coherence

Paryente

Gez-Langerman

2022

Journal of Early Childhood Research

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This article examines kindergarten children’s experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. It aims to understand the children’s thoughts, emotions, and coping strategies regarding the presence of the COVID-19 virus in their daily lives, using the salutogenic approach to study their sense of coherence and promote relevant professional instruction. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were held with 130 five- to six-year-old children with an equal number of boys and girls. All of the children were recruited from kindergartens affiliated with the state’s secular education system. Data were structured into three themes: (1) the child’s perception of the pandemic as manageable through significant accompanying and absent figures; (2) the child’s comprehension of the virus as dangerous, age-differentiating, and contagious; and (3) the child’s emotional processing of the pandemic as arousing fear of death and through images, such as “thorny” and “monster.” The results demonstrate the young children’s sense of coherence, characterized as extrapersonal perception, interpersonal coping, and intrapersonal emotional processing, and the need for greater acknowledgment of child-parent educators’ informed interventions that could give children a partial feeling of the adult’s awareness of their needs.

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