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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Mind-Mindedness"”.
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Parental Mind-Mindedness And Language Development In Early Infancy
… are linked to children’s early language. Mind-mindedness refers to mothers’ proclivity to consider and treat their infant as having an active and autonomous mental life of thoughts, intentions, desires, etc. Mind-mindedness is a foundation of parental sensitivity and responsivity. Little …
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Maternal mind-mindedness: a cognitive-behavioural trait or a relational construct?
Background: Maternal mind-mindedness describes mothers’ tendency to attribute internal states to their children (Meins, 1997) and has been shown to have clear links with positive developmental outcomes for children. However, the nature of the construct has not yet been fully explored. Maternal …
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Maternal History of Neglect, Mind-Mindedness, and The Cycle of Neglect
… present study examined a model linking maternal mind-mindedness, maternal history of neglect, subthreshold neglect and child outcomes (physical, socioemotional, and intellectual).</p> <p><strong>Methods.</strong> The study participants were 96 mother-child dyads assessed at child ages of 4, 8, …
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Bridging the Attachment Transmission Gap with Maternal Mind-mindedness and Infant Temperament
… of this study was to test (a) whether maternal mind-mindedness (MM) mediates the link between maternal attachment (from the Adult Attachment Interview) and infant attachment (in the Strange Situation), and (b) whether infant temperament moderates this model of attachment transmission. …
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Maternal Sensitivity, Maternal Mind-mindedness, and Infant Socioemotional Functioning: An Examination of Concurrent Associations
… between maternal sensitivity, maternal mind-mindedness, and infant socioemotional (SE) functioning were examined in a sample of 40 mother-infant dyads. Semi-structured home observations were conducted to assess maternal sensitivity and collect maternal ratings of maternal depression and …
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Shared Reading, Scaffolding, Guided Participation, and Mind-mindedness in Appalachian Head Start Families: Building the Construct of Mindful-mindedness
… about their children as individuals with minds of their own change due to participation in the intervention condition as compared to those in the control condition?; (b) What are the effects of this intervention on adults\' use of scaffolding and guided participation strategies in the …
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Understanding the parental mind: Examining the stability of parental reflective functioning across the birth of a child and associations with maternal mind-mindedness
<p>Parental reflective functioning (RF) and mind-mindedness are two types of parental mentalization that have been shown to predict child outcomes such as attachment security and emotion regulation. However, much remains to be known about the similarities and differences between parental RF and …
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Emerging Parental Sensitivity: the Transition to Parenthood Through the Lens of Family Systems Theory
… In particular, it examined whether parental mind-mindedness and coherence, dimensions theoretically related to sensitivity, are (i) measurable during pregnancy, (ii) conceptually distinct, and (iii) meaningfully associated with observed sensitivity. Results from two studies are presented. The …
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Toward a theory of how young children learn to read in the ZPD: Implications for research and practice
… learning, and the concepts of metacognition, mindfulness, and mind-mindedness, a model depicting the dynamics of a shared reading activity is proposed. Implications for research and practice are discussed, including suggestions for future research and ways to foster effective teaching …
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Executive Function in Late Childhood and Adolescence: Cultural Contrasts, Correlates, and Consequences
… general intelligence. To evaluate the role of mind-mindedness (defined as parents’ propensity to view their children as mental agents; e.g., Meins, 2013) in non-Western countries, 118 Chinese parents provided a 5-minute speech sample. The validity of applying the computerised EF-task battery in …
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Parent-child mutuality in the early school years
… assessed: executive function (EF) and theory of mind (ToM). In the first empirical chapter, I examined cross-sectional links between EF, ToM, and two aspects of children’s behaviours: autonomy and positivity. The results also indicated substantial levels of dyadic affect contagion; when parental …
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"It's like getting your wee boy back’: Exploring the efficacy of using Video Interaction Guidance to improve parent - child relationships in families where children’s needs are being neglected.
… then the related, but more specific, concepts of mind- mindedness and mentalisation. Research into a number of key interventions designed to improve parent-child relationships is then reviewed, with particular attention paid to the application of the interventions with maltreating, vulnerable …
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What Makes a Mind-Minded Mother?
Past research shows that maternal mind-mindedness (MM) benefits children’s development, however, what factors make a mind-minded mother remains less certain. This research primarily investigated factors that relate to individual differences in interactional MM (Studies 1, 2 & 3) and …