This study shows that a mother's proclivity to ascribe thoughts, feelings, and intentions to her pre-school aged child (mind-mindedness) is related to both parenting stress and negative (hostile) behaviors toward the child during interaction in the home. Mothers who used more mental state words...
Negative perceptions about the child and child behavior are implicit in parenting stress, a construct associated with suboptimal parenting and child outcomes. We examined the extent to which individual differences in mothers' mental representations of their children (mind-mindedness) were related to paren...
Conclusions Parenting a child with ASD does not appear to limit the parent's ability to tune-in to their child's mind. Maternal mind-mindedness scores were similar for the ASD and non-ASD sibling, although there were differences in the valence of representations. Being mind-minded did not ...
Mind-minded parenting, moral babies A new post on my Psychology Today blog: I’m writing about our work on mind-mindedness and the possibility – asContinue Reading 9 Aug 20080 the baby in the mirror Happy mother, clever baby? I’m pleased to see that Roddy Woomble at the Sunday Herald...
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“将心比心”(mind-mindedness)是从依恋理论中衍生出来的概念,指养育者将儿童视为一个有思想个体的倾向性。主要通过观察法和访谈法中养育者对儿童的心理评论来进行评估。本文介绍了实证研究中养育者“将心比心”对儿童的心理理论、语言、行为的积极发展的作用,并从临床角
A study of 200 mothers and their infants has found that in the first two years of life, the most important factor in a child's development is not its mother's education or wealth, but how well she interprets her baby's moods. Researchers found that "mind-mindedness" was a better ...
open-mindedness, and fairness; to work at examining, comparing, and evaluating multiple points of view; and reciprocally, to be critical and in pursuit of the best approximation to the truth one can realize, that is, not to just accept any idea, but to have standards of evaluation and to...
mission-mindedness, and a concern for purity.Anglo-Saxon missionary-monkslike Winfrid (Boniface) ventured to the European continent, gaining the patronage of kings and popes in order to accomplish the work of restoring and reforming the church in some areas, while converting pagans in others. In...
In addition, the researchers discovered that in fathers the effects of mind-mindedness were partly passed on through their sensitive parenting behaviour. The results suggest that bothparentsplay an important role in the development of a young child's emotionregulationcapacity. The maternal impact is ...