caa a22 4500 397583966 CHVBK 20180308164915.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199602 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/jpepsy/21.1.57 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/jpepsy/21.1.57 The Impact of Experience on Children's Understanding of Illness [Elektronische Daten] [Jackie Crisp, Judy A. Ungerer, Jacqueline J. Goodnow] Reported two studies investigating the relationship between the extent of children's experience with illness and their level of understanding about the causes of illness. Both studies compared children with experience of a major chronic illness (cystic fibrosis in Study 1 and cancer in Study 2) with children whose illness experience was relatively minor and acute. The age range of the children in Study 1 was 4.6 to 10.6 years; in Study 2 it was 7 to 14 years. The measure of understanding of illness was the Bibace and Walsh (1980, 1981) Piagetian-based test. To determine the specificity of illness experience effects, performance on this test was considered against a second measure of cognitive functioning: conservation of amount and volume in Study 1; the Peabody Picture Vocabulary test-Revised in Study 2. Results point to both age and experience as contributing to children's understanding of illness. Methodological issues and implications for future research are discussed. © 1996 Plenum Publishing Corporation REGULAR ARTICLES nationallicence illness nationallicence cognitive development nationallicence children nationallicence illness experience nationallicence Crisp Jackie The University of Technology Sydney aut Ungerer Judy A. Macquarie University Sydney aut Goodnow Jacqueline J. Macquarie University Sydney aut Journal of Pediatric Psychology Oxford University Press 21/1(1996-02), 57-72 0146-8693 21:1<57 1996 21 jpepsy https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/21.1.57 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/21.1.57 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Crisp Jackie The University of Technology Sydney aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ungerer Judy A. Macquarie University Sydney aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Goodnow Jacqueline J. Macquarie University Sydney aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Pediatric Psychology Oxford University Press 21/1(1996-02), 57-72 0146-8693 21:1<57 1996 21 jpepsy Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford