Parents' mental state talk during shared book reading predicts children's ToM, unidirectionally¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2022 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Mothers' mental state talk in shared book readings predicted children's ToM performance one year later, while the reverse relation was not supported. → Luciano Gasser · Yvonne Dammert · P. Karen Murphy 2022

Evidence¶

Luciano Gasser · Yvonne Dammert · P. Karen Murphy 2022¶

Luciano Gasser · Yvonne Dammert · P. Karen Murphy. (2022). How Do Children Socially Learn from Narrative Fiction: Getting the Lesson, Simulating Social Worlds, or Dialogic Inquiry? Educational Psychology Review (2022) 34:1445–1475. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-022-09667-4

q2 · i? · review · r3

The review reports, citing Adrián et al. (2007), a longitudinal finding that parents' frequent and elaborated mental state talk during shared book reading predicts children's later ToM performance; a meta-analysis ranks shared book reading among the most effective contexts for stimulating young children's ToM.

"For example, Adrián et al. (2007) showed that mothers' mental state talk in shared book readings predicted their 3- to 7-year-old children's ToM-performance one year later, while the reverse relation was not supported."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Home Learning Environment — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• Children's cognitive flexibility did not predict later maternal emotional or cognitive support — related