Understanding of death in lower school-age children

Autor	Blanka Macková
Organisation	Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně, Fakulta humanitních studií, Ústav pedagogických věd
Year	2013
Research type	bachelor thesis
Annotation	Bachelor thesis deals with factors affecting children's perception of death. The aim is to determine the effect of selected variables on the perception of death in children younger than school age. The theoretical part is devoted to looking at death in the past, which contrasts with the contemporary concept of dying. The next section is given the concept of death in children worldwide uznávané- him a child psychologist prof. Dr. Zdeněk Matějíček, PhD. and American psychologist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. The second chapter examines the factors affecting children's perception of death, among which include the age of the child, the child's experience with death, religiosity, and family communication. In the practical part of the thesis studied the impact of selected factors on the perception of death of children younger school age direct questioning of children aged 6-9 years. The results show that these children do not have personal experience with bereavement, but can recite at least one cause of death in humans.
Keywords	children, lower school-age , death, tabooization of death, understanding of death
Research type	quantitative
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Obor	AM Pedagogy, education, AN Psychology
Email	cejnarova@fhs.utb.cz
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Organisation	Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně, Fakulta humanitních studií, Ústav pedagogických věd
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