Research on early mother-child relationships have long established the associations between maternal thought processes and their children's thoughts and behaviors; however, the pathways behind this intergenerational transference have not yet been fully clarified. Accordingly, the current study focuses on the potential indirect associations between mothers’ social cognition, that is their thinking about social interactions, and children's behavior in preschool through the observed quality of the mother-child relationship and children's social cognition. Specifically, from mothers’ negative social information processing (SIP) patterns to children's social and learning behaviors via maternal insightfulness, dyadic mother-child emotional availability, and children's SIP patterns. The sample included 301 preschoolers and their mothers; data were collected via mother and child direct assessments, video-taped interactions, and teacher questionnaires. Results confirmed connections between mothers’ SIP and their insightfulness regarding their child's thoughts and behaviors, maternal insightfulness and dyadic emotional availability, insightfulness and children's SIP, and children's aggressive SIP patterns with their learning and social behaviors. A partial pathway was introduced and confirmed whereby maternal SIP predicted children's preschool behaviors via maternal insightfulness and children's SIP.

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通过母体洞察力和儿童社会信息处理研究母亲社会信息处理与学龄前儿童社会和学习问题之间的关联


对早期母子关系的研究早就确立了母体思维过程与孩子的思想和行为之间的关联;然而，这种代际转移背后的途径尚未完全阐明。因此，目前的研究侧重于通过观察到的母子关系质量和儿童的社会认知，关注母亲的社会认知（即她们对社会互动的思考）与儿童学龄前行为之间的潜在间接关联。具体来说，从母亲的负面社会信息处理 （SIP） 模式到儿童的社交和学习行为，通过母亲的洞察力、二元母子情感可用性和儿童的 SIP 模式。样本包括 301 名学龄前儿童及其母亲;数据是通过母婴直接评估、录像互动和教师问卷收集的。结果证实了母亲的 SIP 与她们对孩子思想和行为的洞察力、母亲的洞察力和二元情感可用性、洞察力和儿童的 SIP 以及儿童的攻击性 SIP 模式与他们的学习和社会行为之间的联系。引入并证实了一条部分途径，即母亲 SIP 通过母亲的洞察力和儿童的 SIP 预测儿童的学龄前行为。