Despite theory of mind (ToM) has a role in social and cognitive development in school aged children, very few studies have proposed interventions to promote ToM in middle childhood. To fill this gap, we developed a novel ToM training program for 9- to 10-year-old children. Results showed that, after the intervention, children in the ToM group improved in ToM task performance significantly more than children in the control condition. The positive effect of the ToM intervention generalized to a new film-based ToM task and was not determined by pre-existing individual differences in ToM, cognitive, and executive skills between groups.
Gli studi di training sulla Teoria della Mente (ToM) in età scolare sono rari, nonostante questa abilità influenzi lo sviluppo cognitivo e sociale. Nel presente lavoro è stato progettato un inter-vento per promuovere la ToM in bambini di 9-10 anni. Per testarne l’efficacia, il gruppo sperimen-tale (N = 42) è stato confrontato con uno di controllo (N = 43). I risultati mostrano che il gruppo sperimentale incrementa la performance alla ToM in misura significativamente maggiore rispetto a quello di controllo. Questo effetto non è attribuibile a differenze preesistenti tra i gruppi e si gene-ralizza a compiti di ToM non direttamente stimolati durante l’intervento.
(2015). Promuovere la Teoria della Mente in età scolare: Effetti diretti e di generalizzazione. [Promoting theory of mind in school-aged children: Direct and transfer effects] [journal article - articolo]. In PSICOLOGIA CLINICA DELLO SVILUPPO. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/147716
Promuovere la Teoria della Mente in età scolare: Effetti diretti e di generalizzazione. [Promoting theory of mind in school-aged children: Direct and transfer effects]
Bianco, Federica;
2015-01-01
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Despite theory of mind (ToM) has a role in social and cognitive development in school aged children, very few studies have proposed interventions to promote ToM in middle childhood. To fill this gap, we developed a novel ToM training program for 9- to 10-year-old children. Results showed that, after the intervention, children in the ToM group improved in ToM task performance significantly more than children in the control condition. The positive effect of the ToM intervention generalized to a new film-based ToM task and was not determined by pre-existing individual differences in ToM, cognitive, and executive skills between groups.File | Dimensione del file | Formato | |
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