Mind‐mindedness in children: Individual differences in internal‐state talk in middle childhood

British Journal of Developmental Psychology - Tập 24 Số 1 - Trang 181-196 - 2006
Elizabeth Meins1, Charles Fernyhough1, Fiona Johnson1, Jane Lidstone1
1University of Durham, UK

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Children's use of internal‐state language during 2 tasks (book narration and describing a best friend) was investigated in a sample (N=38) of 7‐ to 9‐year‐olds. Proportional use of internal‐state talk on the two tasks was highly positively correlated, a relation that was independent of verbosity, age, verbal ability and the use of non‐internal‐state language. Theory of mind (ToM) performance, assessed usingHappé's (1994)strange stories task, was not related to children's proportional use of internal‐state language on either task. We suggest that these cross‐task relations provide evidence of individual differences in children's spontaneous use of internal‐state language that are independent of their capacities for representing those internal states.

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British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Tập 24 Số 1

181-196

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