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Children’s awareness and understanding of dangers at home

1989; Volume: 8; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/bf02686729

2168-5819

Karen Pfeffer,

Safety Warnings and Signage

This study concerns children’s awareness and understanding of dangers at home. Children aged five to seven years responded to photographs depicting child models exposed to a range of dangers which may be encountered at home—involving the road, a cooker (stove), a knife, electricity, fire, medicine and climbing. Generally, the children were found to be well aware of the dangers in all the circumstances, with small age effects noted for the road, medicine, climbing, cooker and knife situations. Understanding of the consequences of exposure to danger varied across situations and a tendency to underestimate the seriousness of the potential harm was noted.