An explorative study was conducted to try and understand how young children s emerging death concepts form including, (a) what family demographics and child factors contributed to family well-being, (b) did family well-being influence children s social competence, and (c) did family well-being and children s social competence influence children s death conceptions. Although the subject of death contains many unique characteristics, it is not easily separated from other aspects of life; death is inseparable from the whole human experience (DeSpelder & Strickland, 2002). It was the assumption...
An explorative study was conducted to try and understand how young children s emerging death concepts form including, (a) what family demographics and...