Associations between Mothers' Sensitivity to Their Infants' Internal States and Children's Later Understanding of Mind and Emotion
Associations between Mothers' Sensitivity to Their Infants' Internal States and Children's Later Understanding of Mind and Emotion
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DOI：
10.1002/icd.572
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发表时间：
2008-09-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Ereky-Stevens, Katharina
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作者：
Ereky-Stevens, Katharina
本研究探讨了母婴互动与儿童随后对心理和情绪的理解之间的关联。母亲对婴儿内部世界的评论倾向以及对婴儿内部状态的一般敏感性通过10个月时的编码游戏互动来测量。后者的测量包括四个方面的产妇行为的评级：铭记促进，联合注意评论，起搏，和影响捕捉。与母亲的内部状态语言相反，这些行为并没有利用母亲对婴儿心理状态的明确语言表征。在54个月时，通过一系列错误信念任务和情感理解任务来测量儿童对心灵和情感的理解。多变量分析显示，母亲对婴儿内部状态的敏感性与儿童后来对心灵的理解之间存在直接的正相关。版权所有（C）2008约翰威利父子有限公司
This study investigated associations between mother-infant interactions and children's subsequent understanding of mind and emotion. Mothers' tendency to comment on their infants' internal world and their general sensitivity to their infants' internal states were measured through coded play interactions at 10 months. The latter measurement included ratings on four aspects of maternal behaviour: mindful facilitation, joint attention commenting, pacing, and affect catching. In contrast to mothers' internal state language, these behaviours did not tap mothers' explicit linguistic representation of their infants' mental states. At 54 months, children's understanding of mind and emotion was measured through a range of false-belief tasks and an emotion-understanding task. Multivariate analysis revealed direct positive links between mothers' sensitivity to their infants' internal states and children's later understanding of mind. Copyright (C) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.