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Children's concepts of healing: cognitive development and locus of control factors
The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
|April 1, 1978
Abstract:
This study of young children's understanding of the process of healing indicates that both level of cognitive development and locus of control are relevant factors. The importance of the children's locus of control orienation to their understanding was found to depend upon the interaction of the cognitive level and the complexity of the concept considered.