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Death Understanding and Fear of Death in Young Children

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, July 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#10 of 778)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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10 news outlets
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3 blogs
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2 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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Title
Death Understanding and Fear of Death in Young Children
Published in
Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, July 2016
DOI 10.1177/1359104507080980
Pubmed ID
Authors

Virginia Slaughter, Maya Griffiths

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to test whether the developmental acquisition of a mature concept of death, that is, understanding death as a biological event, affects young children's fear of death. Ninety children between the ages of 4 and 8 participated in an interview study in which their understanding of death and their fear of death were both assessed. Levels of general anxiety were also measured via parent report. A regression analysis indicated that more mature death understanding was associated with lower levels of death fear, when age and general anxiety were controlled. These data provide some empirical support for the widely held belief that discussing death and dying in biological terms is the best way to alleviate fear of death in young children.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 137 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 21 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 14%
Student > Master 15 11%
Researcher 12 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 7%
Other 29 21%
Unknown 34 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 47 34%
Social Sciences 15 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 4%
Other 12 9%
Unknown 38 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 101. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 October 2022.
All research outputs
#400,627
of 24,701,594 outputs
Outputs from Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry
#10
of 778 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,348
of 373,471 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry
#3
of 132 outputs
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