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Journal of Pediatric Psychology 8(1) pp. 21-31, 1983
© 1983 Society of Pediatric Psychology

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Children's Conceptions of Death and Personal Mortality1

Thomas P. Reilly2, Joseph E. Hasazi and Lynne A. Bond

University of Vermont

2 All correspondence should be addressed to Thomas P. Reilly, Department of Psychology, John Dewey Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405.

Children's conceptions of death and personal mortality were studied in relation to age, cognitive developmental factors, and life experiences with death or separation/divorce. Sixty children, ranging in age from 5 to 10 years, participated in the study. Children who had experienced the death of a significant other (parent, sibling, close relation, or peer) were compared on a variety of measures to children who had experienced parental separation or divorce, and to children from intact two-parent families with no experience of death or separation/divorce. The results indicated that most children who were 6 years of age or older possessed some belief in the universality of death. A child's understanding of personal mortality was related both to the level of cognitive development and to death-related experience. Children did not differ systematically on measures of personality or adjustment. The theoretical and applied significance of the results is discussed.


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