Gutiérrez Isabel T, Menendez David, Jiang Matthew J, Hernandez Iseli G, Miller Peggy, Rosengren Karl S
Raritan Valley Community College.
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Child Dev. 2020 Mar;91(2):e491-e511. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13263. Epub 2019 May 29.
A mixed-method approach was used to explore parent and child perspectives on death in Mexico. Parents' and children's death-related experiences and understanding of death were examined. While all children in this sample displayed a biological understanding of death, older children were less likely to endorse that all living things die. Children also displayed coexistence of beliefs related to death that can be attributed to both their biological and spiritual understanding of death. We also found that older children were more likely to report that a child should feel sad following the death of a loved one. These findings highlight how cultural practices shape the development of cognitive and affective processes related to death.
采用混合方法来探究墨西哥父母和孩子对死亡的看法。研究了父母和孩子与死亡相关的经历以及对死亡的理解。虽然该样本中的所有孩子都表现出对死亡的生物学理解，但年龄较大的孩子不太可能认同所有生物都会死亡。孩子们还表现出与死亡相关的信念并存，这可以归因于他们对死亡的生物学和精神理解。我们还发现，年龄较大的孩子更有可能报告说，孩子在所爱之人去世后应该感到悲伤。这些发现凸显了文化习俗如何塑造与死亡相关的认知和情感过程的发展。
