Exploring+Children's+Understanding+of+Death.+Through+Drawings+and+the+Concept+Questionaire.

Exploring Children’s Understanding of Death: Through Drawings and the Death Concept Questionnaire. This article compares and contrasts the ideas of death in children who have experienced death personally and those who have yet to. 52 children who were all among the ages of 7,9, and 11 were surveyed. Half of these children had a personal experience with death and the other had not. All the children completed exercises involving answering questions pertaining to animal and human death as well as drawing a picture of their understanding of death. The pictures drawn are pretty eerie and show 3 different sorts of explanations including biological, psychological, and metaphysical concepts. The older children and children with experience in death had a much more concrete idea on the topic than the younger or inexperienced children.

This information pertains to my studies in several ways. The pictures drawn by the children speak volumes in a way that the children may not be able to put into words yet. Also the quantitative information on age range and experience in relation to death understanding will be useful to me in my paper.

Bonoti, Fotini, Angeliki Leondari, and Adelais Mastora. "Exploring Children's Understanding Of Death: Through Drawings And The Death Concept Questionnaire." Death Studies 37.1 (2013): 47-60. Consumer Health Complete - EBSCOhost. Web. 16 June 2016. http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.gsu.edu/eds/detail/detail?vid=79&sid=3ea01540-12a7-43b2-be7b-0e8a047dfdd4%40sessionmgr4004&hid=4202&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=104442673&db=rzh -Brooke Lewis