From the External to the Internal: Behavior Clarifications Facilitate Theory of Mind (ToM) Development in Chinese Children

Autor/inn/en	Liu, Yanchun; Wang, Yijie; Luo, Rufan; Su, Yanjie
Titel	From the External to the Internal: Behavior Clarifications Facilitate Theory of Mind (ToM) Development in Chinese Children
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 40 (2016) 1, S.21-30 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025414562484
Schlagwörter	Asians; Theory of Mind; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Story Reading; Verbal Ability; Intelligence Tests; Vocabulary; Scores; Prediction; Cognitive Ability; Educational Attainment; Parent Background; Task Analysis; Behavior Patterns; Preschool Children; Experimental Groups; Pretests Posttests; Western Civilization; Receptive Language; Coding; Statistical Analysis; Longitudinal Studies; Regression (Statistics); Attribution Theory; Foreign Countries; China; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Mündliche Leistung; Intelligence test; Intelligenztest; Wortschatz; Vorhersage; Denkfähigkeit; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Elternhaus; Aufgabenanalyse; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Codierung; Programmierung; Statistische Analyse; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Ausland
Abstract	The present study investigated how Chinese children develop theory of mind (ToM) in a language environment with limited mental state talk that is rich in behavior discourse. In Study 1, 60 mothers shared a wordless storybook with their 3-4-year-olds. The children completed two false-belief tasks and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised at the same time and again 1 year later. Mothers' early behavior clarifications during book-sharing predicted children's later false-belief understanding independent of children's early false-belief scores; children's early verbal ability; maternal education; and mothers' early mental state clarifications, simple mental state mentions, and simple behavior mentions. Using a discussion paradigm, Study 2 experimentally exposed 46 children aged 4 to 5 years to mental state or behavior clarifications or physical features of object talk (control group) through storytelling. Children in the experimental groups showed improvement in false-belief tasks from the pretest to the posttest. These findings indicate that behavior clarifications facilitated Chinese children's mental understanding, suggesting a culture-specific mechanism for ToM development. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01