“Will I Get Sick?”: Parents’ explanations to children’s questions about a novel illness

IF 1.8 3区 心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL Cognitive Development Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI:10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101383
Seung Heon Yoo , Graciela Trujillo Hernandez , David Menendez , Rebecca E. Klapper , Sarah Martin , Katrina A. Nicholas , Dillanie Sumanthiran , Karl S. Rosengren
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When encountered with a novel illness, children often ask for information about the illness and its impact on health from their parents. Although prior studies have explored how parents generally described the coronavirus to their children, there is an ambiguity in whether parents’ explanations about the coronavirus were about the coronavirus itself or about the pandemic more generally. Furthermore, it remains to be explored how parents responded to questions about the impact of the coronavirus on health. So, the current study explored how parents (N = 425) responded to specific questions that sought out information about the coronavirus and its impact. The results suggest that parents use their child’s specific questions as an opportunity to foster their child’s understanding about an illness. At the same time, parents also use their responses to shield their child from potential upsetting information about the impact of the coronavirus on health and well-being.

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“我会生病吗?”:父母对孩子提出的关于一种新疾病的问题的解释
当遇到新的疾病时,孩子们经常向父母询问有关疾病及其对健康影响的信息。尽管之前的研究已经探讨了父母通常是如何向孩子描述冠状病毒的,但父母对冠状病毒的解释是关于冠状病毒本身还是关于更广泛的大流行,这一点尚不明确。此外,父母如何回答有关冠状病毒对健康影响的问题还有待探索。因此,目前的研究探讨了父母(N=425)如何回答特定问题,以寻求有关冠状病毒及其影响的信息。研究结果表明,父母利用孩子的具体问题来培养孩子对疾病的理解。与此同时,父母还利用他们的反应来保护孩子免受有关冠状病毒对健康和福祉影响的潜在令人不安的信息的影响。
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期刊介绍: Cognitive Development contains the very best empirical and theoretical work on the development of perception, memory, language, concepts, thinking, problem solving, metacognition, and social cognition. Criteria for acceptance of articles will be: significance of the work to issues of current interest, substance of the argument, and clarity of expression. For purposes of publication in Cognitive Development, moral and social development will be considered part of cognitive development when they are related to the development of knowledge or thought processes.
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