Parental demographics and preschool childrens theory of mind
This research investigates the difference between theory of mind (ToM) and parental demographics of preschool children. One hundred and sixty six 3.6- to- 5.6 year old children were tested on three standard false belief tasks and a verbal ability test. A significant difference was found between moth...
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| author | Farhadian, Mokhtar Abdullah, Rohani Mansor, Mariani Redzuan, Maarof Kumar, Vijay |
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| description | This research investigates the difference between theory of mind (ToM) and parental demographics of preschool children. One hundred and sixty six 3.6- to- 5.6 year old children were tested on three standard false belief tasks and a verbal ability test. A significant difference was found between mother’s occupational status and ToM. However, hierarchical regression analysis showed that mother’s occupational status was a significant predictor of children’s ToM development after controlling for age and verbal ability. |
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| spelling | upm-160402015-09-28T02:05:27Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16040/ Parental demographics and preschool childrens theory of mind Farhadian, Mokhtar Abdullah, Rohani Mansor, Mariani Redzuan, Maarof Kumar, Vijay This research investigates the difference between theory of mind (ToM) and parental demographics of preschool children. One hundred and sixty six 3.6- to- 5.6 year old children were tested on three standard false belief tasks and a verbal ability test. A significant difference was found between mother’s occupational status and ToM. However, hierarchical regression analysis showed that mother’s occupational status was a significant predictor of children’s ToM development after controlling for age and verbal ability. Kamla-Raj Enterprises 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16040/1/Parental%20demographics%20and%20preschool%20childrens%20theory%20of%20mind.pdf Farhadian, Mokhtar and Abdullah, Rohani and Mansor, Mariani and Redzuan, Maarof and Kumar, Vijay (2010) Parental demographics and preschool childrens theory of mind. Journal of Human Ecology, 29 (2). pp. 121-128. ISSN 0970-9274 Education,Preschool Preschool teaching English |
| spellingShingle | Education,Preschool Preschool teaching Farhadian, Mokhtar Abdullah, Rohani Mansor, Mariani Redzuan, Maarof Kumar, Vijay Parental demographics and preschool childrens theory of mind |
| title | Parental demographics and preschool childrens theory of mind |
| title_full | Parental demographics and preschool childrens theory of mind |
| title_fullStr | Parental demographics and preschool childrens theory of mind |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parental demographics and preschool childrens theory of mind |
| title_short | Parental demographics and preschool childrens theory of mind |
| title_sort | parental demographics and preschool childrens theory of mind |
| topic | Education,Preschool Preschool teaching |
| url | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16040/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16040/1/Parental%20demographics%20and%20preschool%20childrens%20theory%20of%20mind.pdf |