Attachment, Parent–Child Discourse and Theory-of-Mind Development
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This study investigated the relations among attachment, mother–child discourse, and theory of mind in a sample of 76 four-year-old children (mean age = 4.48 years; 36 boys). Mother–child conversations about a past event were coded for maternal use of elaborative discourse and mothers’ references to mental states. Mothers completed the attachment q-sort and children completed four false-belief tasks. Results revealed that maternal conversational elaboration was a significant predictor of children’s theoryof-mind performance, whereas maternal mental state references and attachment security were not. The findings provide further evidence for the importance of discourse in children’s theory-of-mind development.
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