Laranjo Jessica, Bernier Annie, Meins Elizabeth, Carlson Stephanie M
Department of Psychology University of Montreal.
Department of Psychology Durham University.
Infancy. 2010 May;15(3):300-323. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2009.00014.x. Epub 2010 Jan 8.
This study investigated two aspects of mother-child relationships-mothers' mind-mindedness and infant attachment security-in relation to two early aspects of children's theory of mind development (ToM). Sixty-one mother-child dyads (36 girls) participated in testing phases at 12 (T1), 15 (T2), and 26 months of age (T3), allowing for assessment of maternal mind-mindedness (T1), infant attachment (T2), and child ToM understanding (T3). Results indicated that children's understanding of discrepant desires and visual perspectives was positively related to their mothers' earlier use of appropriate mind-related comments in certain contexts. Furthermore, more securely attached boys, but not girls, performed better on a task requiring comprehension of their mothers' visual perspective. Hence, the links previously found between competent parenting and older children's ToM performance appear to extend, to a certain degree, to toddlers' first manifestations of ToM understanding.
本研究调查了母婴关系的两个方面——母亲的心智化程度和婴儿的依恋安全性——与儿童心理理论发展（ToM）早期的两个方面的关系。61对母婴（36名女孩）参与了12个月（T1）、15个月（T2）和26个月（T3）龄的测试阶段，从而能够评估母亲的心智化程度（T1）、婴儿的依恋情况（T2）以及儿童对心理理论的理解（T3）。结果表明，儿童对不同欲望和视觉观点的理解与母亲早期在某些情境下使用适当的与心智相关的评论呈正相关。此外，在一项要求理解母亲视觉观点的任务中，依恋更安全的男孩（而非女孩）表现更好。因此，先前发现的称职养育与大龄儿童心理理论表现之间的联系似乎在一定程度上延伸到了幼儿心理理论理解的最初表现。
