Maternal Mental State Language and Preschool Children's Attachment Security: Relation to Children's Mental State Language and Expressions of Emotional Understanding

Autor/inn/en	Mcquaid, Nancy; Bigelow, Ann E.; McLaughlin, Jessica; MacLean, Kim
Titel	Maternal Mental State Language and Preschool Children's Attachment Security: Relation to Children's Mental State Language and Expressions of Emotional Understanding
Quelle	In: Social Development, 17 (2008) 1, S.61-83 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0961-205X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00415.x
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Preschool Children; Attachment Behavior; Child Language; Oral Language; Emotional Intelligence; Parent Child Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Emotionale Intelligenz; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	Mothers' mental state language in conversation with their preschool children, and children's preschool attachment security were examined for their effects on children's mental state language and expressions of emotional understanding in their conversation. Children discussed an emotionally salient event with their mothers and then relayed the event to a stranger. Compared to mothers of insecurely attached children, mothers of securely attached children used more mental state language and had children who used more mental state language with both mother and stranger, and who expressed more emotional understanding in the mother-child conversation. Maternal mental state language and attachment security made shared contributions to children's mental state language with their mothers. Maternal mental state language accounted for the effects of attachment security on children's expressions of emotional understanding in the mother-child conversation. Mothers' mental state language to their children may enhance secure attachment and foster children's understanding of mental states in self and others. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10