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How a Child Understands Death: Attachment Theory Perspective
1Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine
|November 20, 2024
Summary
Children with secure parental attachment show less fear of death when they understand it better. Open discussions about death can reduce death anxiety in children with strong parent-child bonds.
Area of Science:
- Developmental Psychology
- Child Psychology
- Thanatology
Background:
- Limited empirical data exists on young children's understanding of death.
- The influence of parental attachment on children's perception of death is not well-understood.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the relationship between children's understanding of death and their fear of death.
- To examine how parental attachment style moderates this relationship.
Main Methods:
- 110 children aged 5-10 years participated.
- Assessed children's understanding and fear of death.
- Parental attachment style measured via parental self-report.
Main Results:
- Greater understanding of death correlated with lower death anxiety in securely attached children.
- Insecure parental attachment was associated with both understanding of death and fear of death.
Conclusions:
- Secure parental attachment may buffer against death anxiety when children understand death.
- Parental attachment style is linked to children's cognitive and emotional responses to death.
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