Department of Psychology, College of Health, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL 32514, USA; Department of Human Development and Family Science, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
Department of Human Development and Family Science, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
J Exp Child Psychol. 2019 Jan;177:132-140. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2018.08.005. Epub 2018 Sep 8.
Private speech is an important strategy reflecting children's self-regulation, and thus understanding how parenting may support private speech can inform intervention work on improving self-regulation. The current study longitudinally investigated how sensitive parenting and directive parenting in toddlerhood interacted to predict preschoolers' private speech in an emotion-eliciting task. In toddlerhood, maternal parenting behaviors were observed during two freeplay sessions. Preschoolers' social and private speech were transcribed and coded during a frustration task. Whereas parenting did not relate to other forms of private speech, preschoolers' facilitative task-relevant private speech was predicted by the interaction of mothers' sensitive and directive behaviors. When sensitivity was high, parents who were less directive had children who used more facilitative task-relevant private speech. These findings highlight that children's regulation may be supported through the combination of high sensitivity and low directiveness when parents and children are engaged in unstructured play together.
自言自语是反映儿童自我调节能力的重要策略，因此了解父母教养方式如何支持自言自语，可以为改善自我调节能力的干预工作提供信息。本研究纵向调查了幼儿期敏感养育和指令性养育如何相互作用，从而预测学龄前儿童在情绪诱发任务中的自言自语。在幼儿期，观察了两位母亲在两次自由游戏期间的养育行为。在挫折任务中，记录并编码了学龄前儿童的社会和私人言语。尽管养育方式与其他形式的自言自语无关，但与任务相关的促进性自言自语的预测因素是母亲敏感和指令性行为的相互作用。当敏感度高时，不那么指令性的父母的孩子会更多地使用与任务相关的促进性自言自语。这些发现强调，当父母和孩子一起进行非结构化游戏时，高敏感性和低指令性的结合可能会支持孩子的调节。
