Children's and adults' understanding of causality of illness and health : From a perspective of naive biology
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18530506
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educational psychology
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| Research Institution | Chiba University |
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Principal Investigator |
INAGAKI Kayoko Chiba University, 教育学部, 教授 (90090290)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2009
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2009)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,060,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
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| Keywords | 病気の因果性 / 生気論的因果 / 素朴生物学 / 栄養概念 / 概念発達 / 親のことばかけ / 生気論 / 栄養概念の理解 / 病気の治癒の理解 |
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| Research Abstract |
The present study examined young children's and adults understanding of the causality of illness and health. Results revealed that young children preferred vitalistic explanations (i.e., vital force taken in from foods works as resistance to illness) to explanations emphasizing social/moral desirability. With regard to the food, they considered the amount of food more important than its sorts. Although adults used scientific words such as virus, they did not understand them deeply, and still gave vitalistic explanations for the illness causality.
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