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Fishburn, Sarah; Meins, Elizabeth; Fernyhough, Charles; Centifanti, Luna C. M.; Larkin, Fionnuala – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The aim of this research was to develop a new observation-based measure for assessing caregivers' mind-mindedness in the preschool years and investigate whether this measure could explain the link between mothers' early appropriate mind-related comments and children's later mentalizing abilities. The new measure was developed using a sample of…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Theory of Mind, Preschool Children, Cognitive Ability
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Cowes, Ely Ann; Santelices, María Pía – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Theory of mind (ToM) allows people to understand their own and others' behaviour, crediting it with intentions, desires and beliefs. In the case of parenting, maternal reflective function unfolds within child-caregiver interactions, and previous studies have pointed out this variable as necessary for positive care. In the present study we sought…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Preschool Children, Stress Variables, Mothers
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Poortaheri, Forough; Yazdi, Seyed Amir Amin; Kareshki, Hosein; Rahimi, Mehdi – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2022
This study was conducted with the aim to design a parenting training program based on cognitive-emotional mediation and evaluating the effectiveness of this program on increasing mothers' literacy of interaction and children's cognitive modifiability in the field of metacognition and theory of mind. The curriculum was designed with a combination…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mothers, Parent Education, Metacognition
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Gluck, Stephanie C.; Tahiroglu, Deniz; Moses, Louis J. – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
The reliability and validity of the Children's Social Understanding Scale (CSUS) was further assessed by examining fathers' as well as mothers' reports of children's social understanding, along with behavioural measures of children's mental state understanding. 112 families with children aged 38 to 64 months participated with both parents filling…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Child Development, Fathers, Mothers
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Yael Kimhi; Liat Kadosh; Gila Tubul-Lavy – Preventing School Failure, 2024
Oral retelling portrays what one understands from reading or listening to a text. The retold stories of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often show macrostructural (overall story structure) difficulties. The study's purpose was to compare macrostructure oral story retelling, after reading (visual modality) or listening (auditory…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Oral Language, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Theory of Mind
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Licata-Dandel, Maria; Wenzel, Anne Sophie; Kristen-Antonow, Susanne; Sodian, Beate – Infant and Child Development, 2021
The present longitudinal study aims at investigating the interplay between child temperament, mother-child interaction quality and child Theory of Mind (ToM) at preschool age with regard to the development of child problem behavior at school age in 115 participants. Maternal sensitivity and child temperament were assessed when children were 4…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Personality Traits, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers
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Dicataldo, Raffaele; Moscardino, Ughetta; Mammarella, Irene Cristina; Roch, Maja – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
Listening narrative comprehension is a complex process that requires the processing of explicit (i.e., information presented in the text) and implicit information (i.e., information inferable from the text) and involves several linguistic and cognitive skills. However, the specific role of these skills in children's comprehension remains unclear.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Emergent Literacy, Prereading Experience