CHILDREN'S PERCEPTION OF DEATH IN HUMANS AND ANIMALS AS A FUNCTION OF AGE, ANXIETY AND COGNITIVE ABILITY

Israel Orbach · Yigal Gross · Hananyah Glaubman · Devora Berman

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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.

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