Reasoning about Illness in III and Healthy Children and Adolescents: Cognitive and Emotional Developmental Aspects

摘要: ABSTRACT Anxiety level, perception of control over illness, stage cognitive development, and reasoning about illness were examined in pediatric oncology, obese, healthy children adolescents. Among the groups, there no mean differences with regard to any these measures. Older participants higher stages development on general their own than younger less cognitively mature participants. In oncology obese particular, those lower control. level was not related but anxiety illness. Clinical implications findings are discussed. J Dev Behav Pediatr 8:266–273, 1987. Index terms: anxiety, hospitalization.