Exploring Ways to Support Children Whose Families Experienced a Death of Their Family Members

探索支持家庭成员去世的儿童的方法

• 批准号: 19592531
• 负责人: KUKITSU Tomoko
• 金额: $ 2.66万
• 依托单位: Tenshi College
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2007 至 2009
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-19592531/
• 关键词: 子ども; 死別; 喪失体験; 悲嘆; 親と子; 生・死; 親; 死別体験; 生・死を語る

This study aims to explore how children respond to their experiences of death and other related forms of loss, as well as examining what kinds of communication exist between children and their parents regarding death and loss experiences. Subjects were 868 parents with children from 1^<st> grade through 6^<th> grade volunteered to participate in the study. Common loss experiences amongst the children were the attending of funerals and visiting sick family members (85%), loss of a pet (50%) and follows death of parents/grandparents (42%). Of those parents, 70% said they had a conversation about death and dying with their children on a daily basis, and many said that social problems and news reports concerning murder and suicide cause them to bring up that conversation. Many parents believe that it is important to have "death-related" conversations from early on in their children's lives, but more than 30% of parents reported that they never had an opportunity to have such discussions with their children. While the desire of parents to provide death education for their children is quite strong, according to the results only 30% of parents have such opportunities to communicate with their children about death and loss experiences.

本研究旨在探讨儿童如何应对他们的死亡和其他相关形式的损失的经验，以及检查什么样的沟通存在于儿童和他们的父母之间的死亡和损失的经验。研究对象为868位家长，其子女自一年级<st>至六年级<th>自愿参加研究。儿童常见的损失经历是参加葬礼和探望生病的家庭成员（85%），失去宠物（50%）和父母/祖父母去世（42%）。在这些父母中，70%的人说他们每天都和孩子谈论死亡和死亡，许多人说社会问题和关于谋杀和自杀的新闻报道导致他们提起这一对话。许多父母认为，在孩子生命的早期进行“与死亡有关”的对话很重要，但超过30%的父母报告说，他们从来没有机会与孩子进行这样的讨论。虽然父母为子女提供死亡教育的愿望相当强烈，但根据调查结果，只有30%的父母有机会与子女交流死亡和失去的经历。