What Mothers Say and What They Do: The Relation between Parenting, Theory of Mind, Language and Conflict/Cooperation

Autor/inn/en	Ruffman, Ted; Slade, Lance; Devitt, Kerry; Crowe, Elena
Titel	What Mothers Say and What They Do: The Relation between Parenting, Theory of Mind, Language and Conflict/Cooperation
Quelle	In: British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 24 (2006) 1, S.105-124 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0261-510X
DOI	10.1348/026151005X82848
Schlagwörter	Theory of Mind; Mothers; Conflict; Parenting Styles; Child Rearing; Cooperation; Cognitive Development; Longitudinal Studies; Individual Characteristics; Parent Child Relationship; Interpersonal Relationship; Age Differences; Affective Behavior; Correlation; Developmental Psychology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Konflikt; Kindererziehung; Co-operation; Kooperation; Kognitive Entwicklung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Korrelation; Entwicklungspsychologie
Abstract	We used a longitudinal study with 55 middle- and upper middle-class children to investigate the relation between early mother characteristics (e.g. mental state talk, general parenting style) and later child characteristics (e.g. theory of mind, conflict/cooperation). Children were tested once when they were around 3 years and then again around 4 years. At each time point, children were given a task in which mothers helped the child and a friend draw items with a drawing toy. We examined 2 measures of child theory of mind (task performance and mental state talk), and 4 measures of conflict/cooperation. Early mother mental state talk was uniquely related to both later theory of mind measures and 2 of 4 later conflict/cooperation measures. Mother parenting style (warmth) was uniquely related only to 1 later child conflict/cooperation measure. Child theory of mind was not related to any child conflict/cooperation measures. Thus, it seems to be only what mothers say (their mental state talk) that relates to child theory of mind, and both what they say and what they do (their warmth) that relates to child conflict/cooperation. (As Provided).
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