大班幼儿对死亡的认知

Young Children’s Understanding of Death

为了解大班幼儿对死亡的适用性、原因性、普遍性、无机能性、不可逆性、非肉体延续性、情绪性等七个死亡子概念的认知情况，本研究通过访谈法对31名大班幼儿进行了调查。结果表明：（1）大班幼儿对死亡的认知具有一些独特之处：他们所理解的死亡意义是宽泛的，他们对死亡的认知受时间概念与事物的具体特点等的共同影响，通常会以群体概念来认识死亡。（2）知识经验影响大班幼儿对死亡的认知。（3）多数幼儿面对生命死亡时会表现出消极情绪，但也有少数幼儿不会产生消极情绪。

In order to explore young children＇s understanding of seven sub-concepts of death, including applicability, causal- ity, universality, nonfunctionality, irreversibility, noncorporeal continuation, and emotionality, the authors interviewed 31 young children aged from 5-6 years old. The results show （1） children have some unique understanding of death： their un- derstanding of death is broad, and is influenced by their own special concept of time and the specific characteristic and condi- tion of things, and generally children recognize death in a group; （2） knowledge and experience from the outside world would influence children＇s understanding of death; （3） most children would show negative emotion if they are faced with death, while a few children would not.