Taumoepeau Mele, Ruffman Ted
Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Child Dev. 2006 Mar-Apr;77(2):465-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00882.x.
This study assessed the relation between mother mental state language and child desire language and emotion understanding in 15-24-month-olds. At both time points, mothers described pictures to their infants and mother talk was coded for mental and nonmental state language. Children were administered 2 emotion understanding tasks and their mental and nonmental state vocabulary levels were obtained via parental report. The results demonstrated that mother use of desire language with 15-month-old children uniquely predicted a child's later mental state language and emotion task performance, even after accounting for potentially confounding variables. In addition, mothers' tendency to refer to the child's over others' desires was the more consistent correlate of mental state language and emotion understanding.
本研究评估了15至24个月大幼儿的母亲心理状态语言与孩子愿望语言及情绪理解之间的关系。在两个时间点，母亲们都向婴儿描述图片，母亲的谈话被编码为心理状态语言和非心理状态语言。对儿童进行了两项情绪理解任务，并通过家长报告获取他们的心理状态和非心理状态词汇水平。结果表明，即使在考虑了潜在的混杂变量之后，母亲对15个月大孩子使用愿望语言仍能独特地预测孩子后期的心理状态语言和情绪任务表现。此外，母亲提及孩子愿望而非他人愿望的倾向，与心理状态语言和情绪理解的相关性更强。
