Does Parental Mind‐Mindedness Account for Cross‐Cultural Differences in Preschoolers’ Theory of Mind?

This study of 241 parent–child dyads from the United Kingdom (N = 120, M (age) = 3.92, SD = 0.53) and Hong Kong (N = 121, M (age) = 3.99, SD = 0.50) breaks new ground by adopting a cross‐cultural approach to investigate children's theory of mind and parental mind‐mindedness. Relative to the Hon...

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Autores principales: Hughes, Claire, Devine, Rory T., Wang, Zhenlin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Empirical Articles
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6849528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28160284
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12746
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description This study of 241 parent–child dyads from the United Kingdom (N = 120, M (age) = 3.92, SD = 0.53) and Hong Kong (N = 121, M (age) = 3.99, SD = 0.50) breaks new ground by adopting a cross‐cultural approach to investigate children's theory of mind and parental mind‐mindedness. Relative to the Hong Kong sample, U.K. children showed superior theory‐of‐mind performance and U.K. parents showed greater levels of mind‐mindedness. Within both cultures parental mind‐mindedness was correlated with theory of mind. Mind‐mindedness also accounted for cultural differences in preschoolers’ theory of mind. We argue that children's family environments might shed light on how culture shapes children's theory of mind.
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spelling pubmed-68495282019-11-15 Does Parental Mind‐Mindedness Account for Cross‐Cultural Differences in Preschoolers’ Theory of Mind? Hughes, Claire Devine, Rory T. Wang, Zhenlin Child Dev Empirical Articles This study of 241 parent–child dyads from the United Kingdom (N = 120, M (age) = 3.92, SD = 0.53) and Hong Kong (N = 121, M (age) = 3.99, SD = 0.50) breaks new ground by adopting a cross‐cultural approach to investigate children's theory of mind and parental mind‐mindedness. Relative to the Hong Kong sample, U.K. children showed superior theory‐of‐mind performance and U.K. parents showed greater levels of mind‐mindedness. Within both cultures parental mind‐mindedness was correlated with theory of mind. Mind‐mindedness also accounted for cultural differences in preschoolers’ theory of mind. We argue that children's family environments might shed light on how culture shapes children's theory of mind. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-02-03 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6849528/ /pubmed/28160284 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12746 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6849528/
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