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Erin M Gaab1, Glynn R Owens2, Roderick D MacLeod3
1Department of Health Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. e.gaab@auckland.ac.nz
Abstract:
Communication about death is often a sensitive topic in families with children. The present studied compared answers of 141 school children aged 5-7 to questions about death, and their caregivers' predictions. Children were interviewed, and caregivers answered on paper, questions on inevitability, applicability, irreversibility, cessation, causation, and personal mortality. For causation, cessation, and irreversibility, children were significantly more correct than caregivers expected, and girls were more correct on applicability. Communicating with children about death may not always be as caregivers expect.
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