Orbach I, Gross Y, Glaubman H, Berman D
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1985 May;26(3):453-63. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1985.tb01946.x.
This study investigated the impact of age, cognitive level and anxiety level on children's conception of death in humans and animals. Children from three age groups (6-7; 8-9; 10-11) were divided into high and low anxiety levels and high and low cognitive abilities. Then, the children were administered two questionnaires on human and animal death. The findings show that there was a main effect of age, anxiety and cognition on the conception of both animal and human death. Human death scores were higher than animal death scores. The interactions indicate that anxiety has a stronger impact on cognitively high subjects than on cognitively low subjects and that cognition affects the animal death concept more than the human death concept.
本研究调查了年龄、认知水平和焦虑水平对儿童对人类和动物死亡概念的影响。来自三个年龄组（6 - 7岁；8 - 9岁；10 - 11岁）的儿童被分为高焦虑水平和低焦虑水平以及高认知能力和低认知能力组。然后，让这些儿童填写两份关于人类和动物死亡的问卷。研究结果表明，年龄、焦虑和认知对动物和人类死亡概念均有主效应。人类死亡得分高于动物死亡得分。交互作用表明，焦虑对认知水平高的受试者的影响比对认知水平低的受试者更强，并且认知对动物死亡概念的影响比对人类死亡概念的影响更大。
