Children Talk About Death.

Menig-Peterson, Carole; McCabe, Allyssa

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ERIC Number: EJ177240

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Publication Date: 1978

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Children Talk About Death

Menig-Peterson, Carole; McCabe, Allyssa

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 8, 4, 305-17, 78

Narratives about death produced by children between three-and-one-half and nine-and-one-half years of age were analyzed. Younger children have difficulty coping with death in emotional terms, and suppress or deny their affective reactions to it. (Author)

Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Concept Formation, Death, Emotional Development, Emotional Response, Grief, Research Projects, Responses

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