1979
DOI: 10.1177/000992287901800602
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Children's Conceptions of Illness and Cognitive Development

Abstract: Editor's Note: "Information in this article will give the clinician an understanding of the stages of cognitive de velopment and the ways of utilizing this knowledge. It affords an explanation of what most good practitioners do as the result of intuition founded on experience."

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“…A broad difference was discerned between the beliefs and concepts of children aged between 7 and 11 years and those aged 12-17 years. A large majority of children in the 7-11 age group perceived the arthritis essentially in terms of its immediate concrete manifestations.…”
Section: Beliefs About Physical Nature Of the Diseasementioning
confidence: 98%
“…A broad difference was discerned between the beliefs and concepts of children aged between 7 and 11 years and those aged 12-17 years. A large majority of children in the 7-11 age group perceived the arthritis essentially in terms of its immediate concrete manifestations.…”
Section: Beliefs About Physical Nature Of the Diseasementioning
confidence: 98%
“…This was followed by numerous research studies, largely North American in origin, spanning the period from the 1950s to the early 1980s. These focused not only on children's understanding of their internal anatomy (Crider, 1981 ;Eiser, Eiser, & Hunt, 1986 ;Gellert, 1962 ;Porter, 1974), but also on their concepts of health (Kalnis & Love, 1982 ;Lewis & Lewis, 1982 ;Natapoff, 1978Natapoff, , 1982, and most prolifically on their concepts of illness (Bibace & Walsh, 1980, 1981Brewster, 1982 ;Caradang, Folkins, Hines, & Steward, 1979 ;Eiser, 1985 ;Nagy, 1951 ;Neuhauser, Amsterdam, Hines, & Steward, 1978 ;Perrin & Gerrity, 1981 ;Redpath & Rogers, 1983 ;Simmeonson, Buckley, & Monson, 1979 ;Whitt, Dykstra, & Taylor, 1979). What such studies had in common, however, were clear links with the field of developmental psychology, and in particular implicit, or more usually explicit, links with the cognitive developmental theories of Piaget (summarised by Piaget & Inhelder, 1969).…”
Section: Review Of the Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Also, negative VOL. 5 correlations were obtained between use of "somatic feelings" category in illness and "conventional behavior" category in health (r = -.46, ρ < .01) and between use of the "sick role" category of illness and the "prevention-health promotion" category of health (r = -.30, ρ < .01). Finally, meanings of health and illness were analyzed against background data.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 98%