First Childhood Death Experiences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13628386 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George E Dickinson (0000-0002-4248-9858, College of Charleston, South Carolina, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 169-182 |
| Publication date | 1992-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/m8f0-tn3f-efcb-h8n3 |
| OpenAlex | W2070140398 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 3 |
A child's first experience with death may be met with a variety of responses. The objective of this research was to determine what adults remember about these early death experiences. Students in college death-and-dying classes were asked to write an essay about their first death experience. The average age of the respondents ( N = 440) was 23.79 years, and their average age at the time of their first death experience was 7.95 years. Content analysis was used to analyze the essays. Over half of all first experiences with death involved relatives, 28 percent involved a pet. Children's responses to death showed emotions similar to those expressed by adults. Over one-third mentioned that crying occurred. Details of the funeral were remembered by many respondents some sixteen years later. Adults need to be sensitive to the needs of children when a significant other or pet dies. It is clear that childhood experiences flavored with death, loss, or separation can become important influences on the way one sees life and copes with death
Crying · Developmental psychology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Infant Health and Development · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Social Psychology
Perpetual loss and pervasive grief
The Role of Communication and Story Telling in the Family Grieving System
Enacting Privacy Rules and Protecting Disclosure Recipients
Perceptions of Family Violence
Relationship of Recollections of First Death Experience to Current Death Attitudes
Life Experience with Death
Communicated Support Following Loss
Fear of Personal Death in Adulthood
Grieving Pet Death
College Granddaughters’ Memories and Emotions Related to Their Relationships With Their Deceased Grandfathers
Attachment, Social Support, and Responses following the Death of a Companion Animal
Quality Insights of University Teachers on Dying, Death, and Death Education
Quality Insights of University Students on Dying, Death, and Death Education—A Preliminary Study in Hong Kong
Images of Heaven and the Spiritual Afterlife
Twenty-First Century End-of-Life Issues in Selected U.S. Professional Schools
Linked Lives and Childhood Experience of Family Death on Educational Attainment
Chinese Secondary Students' Knowledge of, and Attitudes Toward, Death, Dying, and Life Education
Pet attachment and personality type
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,62 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2020 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |