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Psychological Characteristics of Children Who Speak of a Previous Life: A Further Field Study in Sri Lanka

Erlendur Haraldsson

University of Iceland

Patrick C. Fowler

University of Virginia Health Sciences Center

Vimala Periyannanpillai

Sri Lanka Foundation Institute

Personality and mental ability measures were administered to 27 pairs of children in Sri Lanka who did, or did not, claim memories of a previous life. Questionnaires about their behavior, development, and family environment were administered to their parents. Children claiming previous-life memories performed better in school than did their peers and they were not more suggestible. The Child Behavior Checklist revealed that they exhibited more behavioral problems, including oppositional traits, and obsessional and perfectionistic characteristics. The Child Dissociation Checklist showed them to have dissociative tendencies (e.g. rapid changes in personality and frequent daydreaming). The structure of their family environment did not differ measurably from that of comparison children.

Key Words: dissociation • memory • mental abilities • personality traits • reincarnation • Sri Lanka

Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 37, No. 4, 525-544 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/136346150003700403
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