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Parents' Anticipated Discussions About Death With Young Children
Chang Su-Russell1, Luke T Russell1, Ashley E Ermer2
1Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA.
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|December 20, 2021
Summary
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Area of Science:
- Family Communication
- Death Education
- Child Psychology
Background:
- Understanding how parents discuss death with young children is crucial for developing effective communication strategies.
- Existing theories like family communication patterns and terror management theory offer frameworks for this exploration.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate how parents of young children (ages 3-6) describe discussing death.
- To identify themes in parental explanations of death and analyze associations with communication orientations.
Main Methods:
- A mixed-methods approach was employed with 112 parents of young children.
- Inductive coding identified four themes in death discussion narratives.
- Logistic regression analyzed the link between parental communication orientations and discussion content/frequency.
Main Results:
- Parental conversation orientations correlated with the frequency of discussing death.
- Conformity orientations were linked to the use of religion and afterlife explanations in death discussions.
Conclusions:
- Parental communication styles significantly influence how death is discussed with young children.
- Findings highlight the role of conformity and conversation orientations in shaping death education within families.
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