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Journal of Pediatric Psychology 4(1) pp. 77-84, 1979
© 1979 Society of Pediatric Psychology

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Conceptions of Illness Causality in Hospitalized Children1

Rune J. Simeonsson2,, Lenore Buckley and Lynne Monson

Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Rochester School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2All correspondence should be sent to Rune J. Simeonsson, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Highway 54 Bypass West, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514.

Hospitalized children (n = 60) in three age groups (5, 7, 9 years) were administered a number of tasks to explore their conceptions of illness and health and to assess development of physical and social concepts. A significant age progression was observed with these concepts, involving a shift from global, undifferentiated, to increasingly abstract principles. Children's conceptions of illness were also significantly related to performance in conservation, role taking, and physical causality tasks. The practical significance of this research in the context of the ill and hospitalized child is discussed.


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