Socialization of Past Event Talk: Cultural Differences in Maternal Elaborative Reminiscing

Autor/inn/en	Tougu, Pirko; Tulviste, Tiia; Schroder, Lisa; Keller, Heidi; De Geer, Boel
Titel	Socialization of Past Event Talk: Cultural Differences in Maternal Elaborative Reminiscing
Quelle	In: Cognitive Development, 26 (2011) 2, S.142-154 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2014
DOI	10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.12.004
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Cultural Differences; Foreign Countries; Verbal Communication; Recall (Psychology); Socialization; Parent Child Relationship; Memory; Middle Class; Personal Autonomy; Preschool Children; Estonia; Germany; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Kultureller Unterschied; Ausland; Abberufung; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Gedächtnis; Mittelschicht; Individuelle Autonomie; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Estland; Deutschland; Schweden
Abstract	This study examines mother-child reminiscing conversations with respect to variation in use and function of mothers' elaborations, the nature of children's memory elaborations, and the connections between the two, in three Western middle-class cultures where autonomy is valued over relatedness. Mothers participated with their 4-year-old children (35 dyads from Berlin, Germany, 42 dyads from Stockholm, Sweden, and 38 from Tallinn, Estonia). Mothers' open-ended questions predicted children's memory elaborations in Estonian dyads, mothers' statements and verbal confirmation did so in German dyads, and verbal confirmations did so in Swedish dyads. Number of children's elaborations was similar in all three groups, but Estonian mothers were less elaborative than Swedish and German mothers. These findings contrast with previous research in which number of child elaborations has been linked to number of mother elaborations. The results suggest that different aspects of elaborative style function differently. The differences are discussed in light of culturally rooted meanings and practices of talking. (As Provided).
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