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Direct linkSilletti, Fabiola; Salvadori, Eliala A.; Presaghi, Fabio; Fasolo, Mirco; Aureli, Tiziana; Coppola, Gabrielle – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Mind-mindedness (MM) refers to caregivers' proclivity to treat a child as having an active and autonomous mental life. It has been shown to be a powerful predictor of many developmental outcomes and to mitigate the impact of risk conditions. However, longitudinal studies on MM reporting changes over time and individual differences among mothers…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Parent Child Relationship, Socioeconomic Status, Play
Frausel, Rebecca R.; Richland, Lindsey E.; Levine, Susan C.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Personal narrative is decontextualized talk where individuals recount stories of personal experience about past or future events. As an everyday discursive speech type, narrative potentially invites parents and children to explicitly link together, generalize from, and make inferences about representations--that is, to engage in higher-order…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Thinking Skills, Family Environment, Personal Narratives
Bohn, Annette; Berntsen, Dorthe – Developmental Psychology, 2013
When do children develop the ability to imagine their future lives in terms of a coherent prospective life story? We investigated whether this ability develops in parallel with the ability to construct a life story for the past and narratives about single autobiographical events in the past and future. Four groups of school children aged 9 to 15…
Descriptors: Child Development, Adolescent Development, Autobiographies, Imagination
Peer reviewedGleason, Tracy R.; Sebanc, Anne M.; Hartup, Willard W. – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Interviewed mothers to examine the developmental significance of preschoolers' imaginary companions. Found that relationships with invisible companions were described as sociable and friendly, whereas personified objects were usually nurtured. Object personification frequently occurred as a result of acquiring a toy; invisible friends were viewed…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Taylor, Marjorie; Carlson, Stephanie M.; Maring, Bayta L.; Gerow, Lynn; Charley, Carolyn M. – Developmental Psychology, 2004
Past research with 152 preschoolers found that having an imaginary companion or impersonating an imaginary character was positively correlated with theory of mind performance. Three years later, 100 children from this study were retested to assess the developmental course of play with imaginary companions and impersonation of imaginary characters…
Descriptors: Play, Fantasy, Young Children, Imagination
