Mothers' "and" Fathers' Use of Internal State Talk with Their Young Children

Autor/inn/en	LaBounty, Jennifer; Wellman, Henry M.; Olson, Sheryl; Lagattuta, Kristin; Liu, David
Titel	Mothers' "and" Fathers' Use of Internal State Talk with Their Young Children
Quelle	In: Social Development, 17 (2008) 4, S.757-775 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0961-205X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00450.x
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Social Cognition; Fathers; Social Development; Discourse Analysis; Young Children; Language Styles; Parent Child Relationship; Parent Influence; Emotional Response; Communication (Thought Transfer); Communication Strategies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Soziale Kognition; Soziale Entwicklung; Diskursanalyse; Frühe Kindheit; Sprachstil; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Emotionales Verhalten; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Kommunikationsstrategie
Abstract	The present study extends previous results demonstrating a relation between maternal discourse and child social understanding to include paternal discourse. Emotion understanding (EU) and theory of mind (ToM) were considered as two distinctive aspects of social understanding. Participants were 106 children (54 boys and 52 girls) studied at 3.5 and 5 years. Discourse measures came from separate parent-child conversations during a picture-book task; measures of EU and ToM came from children's performance on social cognition tasks. Differences in parental talk translated into important differences in the influence of each parent on children's social-cognitive understanding. Mothers' references to emotion and emotion causal explanatory language predicted children's concurrent EU. Fathers' use of causal explanatory language referring to desires and emotions predicted children's concurrent and later ToM. These results highlight important differences between mothers and fathers in their use of internal state language and its impact on children's social-cognitive understanding. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10