Theory of Mind, Self-Worth and the Mother-Child Relationship

Autor/inn/en	Cahill, Katherine R.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Pike, Alison; Hughes, Claire
Titel	Theory of Mind, Self-Worth and the Mother-Child Relationship
Quelle	In: Social Development, 16 (2007) 1, S.45-56 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0961-205X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00371.x
Schlagwörter	Theory of Mind; Mothers; Child Behavior; Parent Child Relationship; Cognitive Development; Hypothesis Testing; Affective Behavior; Self Esteem; Twins; Young Children; Verbal Ability; Puppetry; Interviews; Observation; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Kognitive Entwicklung; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Twin; Zwilling; Frühe Kindheit; Mündliche Leistung; Puppenspiel; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Beobachtung; Korrelation
Abstract	We tested the hypothesis that mother-child warmth and responsiveness would moderate the link between young children's theory of mind skills and self-worth. Participants included 125 same-sex pairs of 3.5 year-old twins and their mothers. A battery of tests was individually administered to measure the children's theory of mind skills and verbal intelligence, and their self-reported self-worth was assessed using a puppet interview. Following visits to the families' homes, the observers completed ratings of warm responsive mother-child behavior based on videotaped unstructured and structured observations. As expected, warm responsive behavior moderated the relation between their theory of mind and the child's self-worth. Their theory of mind was positively associated with self-worth in warm responsive mother-child dyads, and there was weaker evidence that their theory of mind may be negatively associated with self-worth in less warm, unresponsive mother-child dyads. (As Provided).
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