| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 生命教育與健康促進研究所 === 97 === The purpose of this study was to investigate sixth graders’ grief reactions and significant influences at that time and at this time in the face of the first death experience. The participants in this study were 315 sixth-grade students who enrolled in an elementary school in Taipei, including 149 male and 166 female. The instrument developed by the researcher proceeded by way of online surveys to collect qualitative and quantitative data. In this study, qualitative data from the final one-on-one interview completed by the researcher brought out considerable and thoughtful points regarding some of the participants’ further opinions about the first death experience. The quantitative analysis of the surveys was conducted by using the descriptive statistics, t-test, and one-way ANOVA. In conclusion, seven of these research findings were as follows:
1. More than 80% of the participants had ever faced the first death experience; besides, the age of 56.8% of them in the face of the first death experience was nine to twelve years old.
2. Emotional reactions to grief were more prevalent, including missing the deceased, sad farewell, wishing for arising from the dead, and extremely sadness.
3. Grief reactions of the participants were more severe sadness, especially those who had closer relationship with the deceased, who doubted about death, whose parents responded to the death, and who had taken the initiative to find other people to talk about their feelings.
4. The results of the ANOVA showed that the significant differences were between the age of the first death experience and grief reactions at that time; moreover, the significant differences were between the deceased and grief reactions at this time.
5. The significant influences of the first death experience at that time were showed principally feelings and behaviors of the participants. The significant influences at this time consisted of positive and negative influences. The scores of positive influences were higher than negative influences.
6. The significant influences at that time shown “could not see the deceased any more” and “one less family member or pet” were more prevalent; furthermore, the significant influences at this time shown “treasure the life” and “cherish family and friends” were more prevalent.
7. The significant influences shown in this study were more severe sadness, especially those who had closer relationship with the deceased, who doubted about death, whose parents responded to the death, whose father took the initiative to talk about the death event, and who had taken the initiative to find other people to talk about their feelings.
According to the conclusions, it is recommended that parents and teachers put great emphasis on grief reactions of the first death experience of children and have a positive guidance and impact on their children in accordance with their children’s responses and doubts.
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