| Abstract: | An investigation of healthy children s beliefs concerning causes of illness utilized a projective picture and questionnaire in individual interviews Forty-eight subjects from two middleclass suburban Milwaukee schools were randomly selected, children from K-1 and fourth-fifth grades were subdivided evenly by sex and father s occupation (physician/other professtonal) Attribution of causation of illness by all causative factors increased significantly with age, with the exception of misbehavior (decrease) and weather (equal response strength). |
