Not Too Young to Understand: Meaning Making From the Perspectives of School‐Aged Children With Cancer—A Scoping Review
Yixuan Wang, Cheng Jin, Jennifer Currin‐McCulloch, David MacPhee, Abby R Rosenberg, Yijia Yang, Zhenrong Su, Peichen Liu, Jiameng Wang, Sydney Pryor · 2026
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Yixuan Wang and nine co-authors reviewed how school-aged children make sense of having cancer, in a paper from twenty twenty-six. Meaning making shapes how adults adjust to cancer, yet children's own views are poorly mapped. Most models come from adult research and stress inner, private processes.
The team gathered studies reporting directly from children aged six to twelve. Children's meaning making covered their broad beliefs, their hopes for normal life and friendships, and how they judged threats to self and future. They used thinking, feeling, social, spiritual, and hands-on routes, and sometimes avoidance. Parents, clinicians, and culture shaped the process throughout. Evidence on the sense of purpose children reach was thin.
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| CREATOR | Yixuan Wang, Cheng Jin, Jennifer Currin‐McCulloch, David MacPhee, Abby R Rosenberg, Yijia Yang, Zhenrong Su, Peichen Liu, Jiameng Wang, Sydney Pryor |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 109 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |