A Longitudinal Study of Belief and Desire State Discourse during Mother-Child Play and Later False Belief Understanding

Autor/inn/en	Symons, Douglas K.; Fossum, Kristin-Lee M.; Collins, T. B. Kate
Titel	A Longitudinal Study of Belief and Desire State Discourse during Mother-Child Play and Later False Belief Understanding
Quelle	In: Social Development, 15 (2006) 4, S.676-692 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0961-205X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9507.2006.00364.x
Schlagwörter	Theory of Mind; Play; Socioeconomic Status; Mothers; Child Language; Cognitive Development; Longitudinal Studies; Role; Discourse Analysis; Parent Child Relationship; Cognitive Processes; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Mother; Mutter; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Kognitive Entwicklung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Rollen; Diskursanalyse; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Korrelation
Abstract	There is considerable interest in the role of mental state language in theory of mind development. This study examines cognitive and desire state discourse of 43 mothers during play interactions with their two-year-old children and theory of mind as indicated by a battery of false belief tasks around the age of five. Desire state comments of mothers during free play which were appropriate to the conversational context were significantly related to children's later theory of mind, and this relation was independent of other confounding variables, including a home-based measure of maternal sensitivity, and socio-economic status, and an estimate of child language. The child's desire state language was concurrently related to the mother's desire state language used appropriately, and the child's cognitive state language was related to the mother's appropriate cognitive state language. Although cognitive state language was not predictive of later theory of mind, this may be because this kind of language plays a later role in theory of mind development. (As Provided).
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