Nyberg Sandra, Dahlström Örjan, Voinier Daniel, Bergström Kerstin, Heimann Mikael
Infant and Child Lab, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Sweden.
Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Sweden.
J Child Lang. 2025 Jan;52(1):117-134. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000594. Epub 2023 Oct 23.
Mental State Talk (MST) is utterances describing invisible mental aspects. The first aim of this study was to investigate the characteristics of Parental MST and Child MST and their concurrent association in a Swedish population, and the second aim was to relate these MST measures to the children's general language abilities. Seventy-seven dyads of parents and their 25-month-old toddlers participated. MST was assessed by videotaping the dyads during free-play sessions in a laboratory and general language abilities were based on parental reports. Forty-nine toddlers did not produce MST, while all parents used MST. Child MST was positively associated with vocabulary and grammar. Parental MST was not associated with Child MST nor the children's general language abilities. In exploratory analyses, Parental MST referred to another than the child was positively correlated with vocabulary and grammar. Further studies are needed to confirm these findings and continue studying MST in different linguistic contexts.
心理状态谈话（MST）是描述无形心理方面的言语。本研究的首要目的是调查瑞典人群中父母的心理状态谈话和孩子的心理状态谈话的特征及其并发关联，第二个目的是将这些心理状态谈话指标与孩子的一般语言能力联系起来。77对父母及其25个月大的幼儿参与了研究。通过在实验室自由玩耍环节对这些亲子对进行录像来评估心理状态谈话，一般语言能力则基于父母的报告。49名幼儿未产生心理状态谈话，而所有父母都使用了心理状态谈话。孩子的心理状态谈话与词汇和语法呈正相关。父母的心理状态谈话与孩子的心理状态谈话以及孩子的一般语言能力均无关联。在探索性分析中，父母提及孩子之外的他人的心理状态谈话与词汇和语法呈正相关。需要进一步研究来证实这些发现，并继续在不同语言背景下研究心理状态谈话。
