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Association: Name: XVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies URL: http://www.isisweb.org
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Shinohara, Ikuko. "The Relation among Maternal Mind-Mindedness and Infants' Understanding of Others' Attentional States" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the XVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Westin Miyako, Kyoto, Japan, Jun 19, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p93837_index.html>

Shinohara, I. , 2006-06-19 "The Relation among Maternal Mind-Mindedness and Infants' Understanding of Others' Attentional States" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the XVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Westin Miyako, Kyoto, Japan <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p93837_index.html

Publication Type: Individual Poster Abstract: Background and Aims: It has been proposed that the parent-child social interactions have important roles in child’s development of mind understanding. Some of parent’s traits may affect the content of interaction which the child experience in everyday life. It is shown that maternal high mind-mindedness (the tendency to focus on the mind of infants) in the first year of life contribute to subsequent child’s mental abilities (Meins et al., 2003). In this study, firstly I assessed the maternal individual differences in MM. Second, I investigated the relations between such maternal tendencies and their interactive styles with their infants. Thirdly, the relevance between maternal MM and infants’ abilities to understand other’s intention were examined. Methods: Participants were 37 mothers and their infants. (a)Empirical measurement of maternal MM: The original video-based instruments were constructed. Mothers watched video segments of various kinds of bodily movement and emotional expression of several infants (but not their own children). Mothers were subsequently interviewed regarding those filmed infants’ mental states. (b)Observation of infant-mother interactions: Free play interactions at home were observed twice, when infants were 6- and 9-month old. (c)Response to other’s pointing task: This task was conducted for 9-month old infants, infants’ responses to tester’s pointing were observed. Key Results and Discussion: (a)It was suggested that there were some large individual differences of maternal MM in not only the frequency but also the specific contents what mother read from infant’s behavior. (b) Maternal MM frequency had significant positive relations with the frequency of mother’s comments on their own child’s mental states at both 6 and 9 months. At 6 months, maternal MM frequency also positively related to frequency of mother-infant sharing attention by the mother followed infant’s gaze. (c) Maternal individual differences in MM content, but not frequency, had relations to 9- month infants’ abilities to response other’s attentional states. It had been proposed that rich exposure to mental terms or sharing attention with others could provide some ‘scaffolding’ for the child to understand the mental world. The effects of maternal MM on child’s development of mind-understanding in infancy through the daily interaction were discussed.

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