Talking about Internal States in Mother-Child Reminiscing Influences Children's Self-Representations: A Cross-Cultural Study

Autor/inn/en	Wang, Qi; Doan, Stacey N.; Song, Qingfang
Titel	Talking about Internal States in Mother-Child Reminiscing Influences Children's Self-Representations: A Cross-Cultural Study
Quelle	In: Cognitive Development, 25 (2010) 4, S.380-393 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2014
DOI	10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.08.007
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Children; Cultural Influences; Parent Child Relationship; Cross Cultural Studies; Whites; Chinese Americans; Interviews; Immigrants; Personality Traits; Prediction; Recall (Psychology) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Child; Kind; Kinder; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; White; Weißer; Asian immigrant; Chinese; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; Chinesen; USA; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Vorhersage; Abberufung
Abstract	This study examined the relation of mother-child discussions of internal states during reminiscing to the development of trait and evaluative self-representations in 131 European American and Chinese immigrant 3-year olds. Mothers and children discussed one positive and one negative event, and children were interviewed for self-descriptions. Euro-American mothers and children made more references to internal states and focused more on causal talk than did Chinese, and Euro-American children were more likely than Chinese children to describe their own traits and evaluative characteristics. Mothers' and children's use of internal state language during reminiscing of the negative event uniquely predicted children's trait and evaluative self-representations, independent of culture. Explanations of internal states and conversing in the negative event context were particularly effective in predicting children's self-representations. Discussions of internal states further mediated cultural influences on children's self-representations. The findings provide new insight into the contribution of parent-child reminiscing to the development of self. (Contains 3 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10