Parent-child conversations about the mind: Examining the effect of parent and child gender on the categories and referent of mental state talk

• Main Author: Ting, Sharon Shu Hui
• Other Authors: Setoh Pei Pei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168479
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Research has shown that parental mental state talk is related to children’s social understanding and is also a crucial medium for gender socialisation. Yet, there is a paucity of research on the relation between parent and child mental state talk during middle childhood. Moreover, literature on the...