ABSTRACT
This study suggests that childhood cardiac illness has a depressive impact on the attainment of conservation tasks, but does not affect illness causality conceptualization. The group of twelve ill children studied appeared to feel somewhat more vulnerable to illness in general, especially when projecting to adult health status, than did a matched group of healthy children.
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Attitude to Health , Child Development , Cognition Disorders/psychology , Heart Defects, Congenital/psychology , Adaptation, Psychological , Adolescent , Child , Child Reactive Disorders/psychology , HumansABSTRACT
Levels of illness conceptualization were studied among children with diabetic siblings. Results revealed a significant association between pretested Piagetian level of cognitive development and illness conceptualization. Children with ill siblings, especially those at the formal operational level, demonstrated lower conceptualization levels than did children with healthy siblings.
