Evidence of Cross-Cultural Differences in Maternal Mind-Mindedness

IF 2 2区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infancy Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI:10.1111/infa.70021

Fabiola Silletti, Gabrielle Coppola, Cristina Colonnesi, Maria Licata-Dandel, Tiziana Aureli, Beate Sodian

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Abstract

Cross-cultural research on maternal mind-mindedness- the proclivity to view the child as a mental agent-can enhance our understanding of caregiving determinants and children's social-cognitive variations across cultures. However, cross-cultural studies on mind-mindedness remain limited. To address this gap, we examined mothers' use of appropriate (AMRCs) and non-attuned (NAMRCs) mind-related comments in Italy (N = 88), Germany (N = 64), and the Netherlands (N = 97) with their 12-month-old infants (N = 249; 133 girls and 116 boys). Cluster analysis revealed three maternal profiles: low use of both AMRCs and NAMRCs, high use of both AMRCs and NAMRCs, and high AMRCs with low NAMRCs. Almost half of the German mothers belonged to the first profile, most Italian mothers to the second, and Dutch mothers were equally distributed across the three. These findings highlight, for the first time, cultural influences on maternal mind-mindedness within Western countries and emphasize the need to move beyond a simplistic West-East comparison, recognizing that cultural differences can be observed even within similar contexts, and call for culturally sensitive psychoeducational interventions to enhance caregivers' mentalizing skills.

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母亲心智的跨文化差异的证据

对母亲心智的跨文化研究——将孩子视为精神主体的倾向——可以增强我们对照料决定因素和儿童在不同文化中的社会认知差异的理解。然而，关于心智的跨文化研究仍然有限。为了解决这一差距，我们在意大利（N = 88）、德国（N = 64）和荷兰（N = 97）对其12个月大的婴儿（N = 249）使用适当的（amrc）和不协调的（namrc）心理相关评论。133名女孩和116名男孩)。聚类分析显示了三种产妇特征：amrc和namrc的低使用率、amrc和namrc的高使用率、amrc高使用率和namrc低使用率。几乎一半的德国母亲属于第一种类型，大多数意大利母亲属于第二种类型，而荷兰母亲则平均分布在这三种类型。这些发现首次强调了西方国家的文化对母亲心智的影响，并强调了超越简单的东西方比较的必要性，认识到即使在相似的背景下也可以观察到文化差异，并呼吁采取文化敏感的心理教育干预措施，以提高照顾者的心智化技能。

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Infancy PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

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4.00

自引率

7.70%

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期刊介绍： Infancy, the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, emphasizes the highest quality original research on normal and aberrant infant development during the first two years. Both human and animal research are included. In addition to regular length research articles and brief reports (3000-word maximum), the journal includes solicited target articles along with a series of commentaries; debates, in which different theoretical positions are presented along with a series of commentaries; and thematic collections, a group of three to five reports or summaries of research on the same issue, conducted independently at different laboratories, with invited commentaries.