Paine Amy L, Hashmi Salim, Roberts Siwan, Fyfield Rhiannon, Hay Dale F
School of Psychology Cardiff University Cardiff United Kingdom.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Bangor University Bangor United Kingdom.
Soc Dev. 2019 Aug;28(3):529-548. doi: 10.1111/sode.12356. Epub 2019 Jan 24.
Although it is well established that features of maternal speech are associated with children's social understanding in the preschool years, few studies explore this relationship in middle childhood. Within the context of a prospective longitudinal study of a representative community sample of families (subsample 207, mean age = 82.88 months), we investigated concurrent associations between mothers' internal state language and aspects of 7-year-olds' social understanding, including children's understanding of belief and spontaneous references to internal states during free play. When sociodemographic, maternal, and child characteristics were controlled, mothers' references to their own cognitions were associated with dimensions of children's social understanding. Our findings suggest that exposure to others' perspectives contributes to children's advanced understanding of minds, which has implications for interventions that foster social understanding.
虽然众所周知，母亲言语的特征与学龄前儿童的社会理解能力相关，但很少有研究探讨童年中期的这种关系。在一项对具有代表性的社区家庭样本进行的前瞻性纵向研究中（子样本207，平均年龄 = 82.88个月），我们调查了母亲的心理状态语言与7岁儿童社会理解能力各方面之间的同步关联，包括儿童对信念的理解以及在自由玩耍期间对心理状态的自发提及。在控制了社会人口统计学、母亲和儿童特征后，母亲对自身认知的提及与儿童社会理解能力的维度相关。我们的研究结果表明，接触他人的观点有助于儿童对心理的深入理解，这对促进社会理解的干预措施具有启示意义。
