Mind-mindedness in children: individual differences in internal-state talk in middle childhood

Meins, Elizabeth, Fernyhough, Charles, Johnson, Fiona and Lidstone, Jane 2006. Mind-mindedness in children: individual differences in internal-state talk in middle childhood. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 24 (1) , pp. 181-196. 10.1348/026151005X80174

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Abstract

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 using Happé'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.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Psychology
Additional Information:	Special issue: The role of conversations in children's social, emotional and cognitive development
Publisher:	British Psychological Society
ISSN:	0261-510X
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2017 14:31
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/33303

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