Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, København, Denmark.
PLoS One. 2024 Sep 30;19(9):e0311237. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0311237. eCollection 2024.
Maternal and child mental state language is associated with improved socioemotional and cognitive child development. This study examined if introducing a story stem (a narrative playing out socioemotional conflicts) in a play situation facilitated maternal and child mental state language compared to a free-play (baseline) situation, and if mothers and children with low baseline mental state language profited more from the story stem situation. Participants were 101 four-year-old children and their mothers. Maternal and child mental state language correlated and providing the story stem increased both maternal and child mental state language. Providing a story stem increased mental state language more for mothers and children groups with lowest mental state language at baseline compared to a high mental state language group. The results indicate a validation of the use of story stems to increase maternal and child mental state language within a typical population.
母婴心理语言与儿童社会情感和认知发展的改善有关。本研究考察了在游戏情境中引入故事线索（一种表现社会情感冲突的叙述）是否比自由游戏（基线）情境更能促进母婴心理语言，以及母婴心理语言基础较低的母亲和孩子是否从故事线索情境中获益更多。参与者为 101 名 4 岁儿童及其母亲。母婴心理语言相关，提供故事线索会增加母婴心理语言。与高心理语言组相比，提供故事线索对基线心理语言最低的母婴组的心理语言增加更多。研究结果表明，在典型人群中使用故事线索来增加母婴心理语言是有效的。
