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Direct linkLinda Johansen; Gabriella Óturai; Ann-Kathrin Jaggy; Sonja Perren – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
The positive links between children's theory of mind (ToM), emotion understanding, and positive peer relationships are well established. However, the existing literature lacks comprehensive studies investigating the longitudinal interplay between these components in preschool-aged children. This study aimed to fill this gap by examining the…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Preschool Children, Peer Relationship, Interpersonal Competence
Li, Fang; Jiang, Yong; Zhang, Beibei; Zhu, Xingjian; Sha, Tianyan – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study aimed to examine the effects of rater, age and gender on the relationship between theory of mind (ToM) and preschoolers' social competence with peers (SCP). A sample of 152 Chinese urban children aged 4 to 6 years (78 boys and 74 girls) were given ToM scale. Their SCP was measured by teacher report and parent report. There were three…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Interpersonal Competence, Peer Relationship, Foreign Countries
Chen, Jennifer J.; Kacerek, Crystal R. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2022
Sociodramatic play is considered a critical context within which child leaders and followers may naturally emerge, while their cognitive abilities (e.g., theory of mind) and social competence are developed and applied. This study investigated child leadership and followership during sociodramatic play among 20 racial/ethnic minority 3- and…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged, Preschool Education
Zakai-Mashiach, Mati; Dromi, Esther; Al-Yagon, Michal – Journal of Special Education, 2021
This study examined the natural social interest of 193 (95 boys, 98 girls) typically developing preschoolers aged 41 to 77 months (M = 61.71 months, SD = 8.48 months) toward their included peers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; N = 16, M = 66.8, SD = 8.80). A hierarchical linear model examined the role of endogenous (within-child) and exogenous…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Inclusion, Autism
Ralph, Rachel – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This empirical study investigated the manifestation of prosocial sharing behaviours and how this interplayed with preschool-aged children's Theory of Mind (ToM), described in cognitive science as one's ability to ascribe mental states to others and how the ascribed states are used to explain and predict the actions f others, when using media and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Theory of Mind, Prosocial Behavior, Preschool Children
Werner, Rebecca Stetson; Cassidy, Kimberly Wright; Juliano, Mariel – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
This study investigated the relationship between preschool children's social-cognitive abilities (theory of mind and social information processing; SIP) and their observed physical and relational aggressive behaviour. Children with more advanced social-cognitive abilities engaged in fewer acts of physical aggression; however, much of the ability…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Preschool Children, Gender Differences, Information Processing
