| 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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| 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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