The role of maternal verbal, affective, and behavioral support in preschool children's independent and collaborative autobiographical memory reports
The role of maternal verbal, affective, and behavioral support in preschool children's independent and collaborative autobiographical memory reports
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DOI:
10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.08.008
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发表时间:
2010-10-01
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
Bauer, Patricia J.
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作者:
Larkina, Marina;Bauer, Patricia J.
The authors investigated the individual and relative contributions of different aspects of maternal support (i.e., verbal, affective, and behavioral) in relation to children's collaborative and independent reminiscing. Four-year-old children discussed personal past experiences with their mothers and with a researcher. In collaborative recall with their mothers, children's narrative behavior was regulated best by maternal use of specific elaborative components, such as affirmations. In contrast, in children's independent recall, affective and behavioral qualities of maternal support were related to children's memory performance. Specifically, during free-recall, the dimensions of quality of instruction and respect for autonomy were significant predictors of children's narratives. In the context of prompted recall (supported by wh-questions), respect for autonomy was the only significant predictor of children's involvement in the conversations and of the amount of unique content they provided. The findings suggest that different aspects of maternal behavior facilitate different components of children's reminiscing skills, which children might apply depending on demands of the autobiographical memory conversation. (c) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.