母亲语言支架预测儿童社会性:儿童依恋水平的中介作用

Maternal Verbal Scaffolding Positively Predicts Children’s Social Development:the Mediating Role of Children’s Attachment Level

目的:考察母亲的语言支架对儿童社会性的影响以及儿童的依恋水平在其中的中介作用。方法:对60名儿童及其母亲进行调查研究,对母子对话进行录音并分析、采用中文版的儿童依恋行为分类卡片以及儿童社会性问卷考察其依恋水平和社会性发展水平。结果:①母亲的语言支架、儿童的依恋水平及儿童的社会性三者间存在显著正相关。②母亲的语言支架显著预测儿童社会性水平,儿童的依恋水平在母亲的语言支架和儿童的社会性水平之间起部分中介作用。结论:母亲语言支架通过儿童的依恋水平影响其社会性发展。

Objective:The importance of Children’s social development have been widely recognized in psychology.The present study was designed to investigate the relationships between maternal verbal scaffolding and children’s social development,and examine whether Children’s attachment level served as a mediating role in this relatioship.Methods:A sample of 60 children and their mothers was recruited,.This research adopted the questionnaire measurement to measure children’s social development,attachment relationship with their mothers as well as the maternal verbal scaffolding.Results:①Maternal verbal scaffolding positively predicted children’s social development.②Children’s attachment level functions as a bridge linking maternal verbal scaffolding and children’s social development.Conclusion:The maternal verbal scaffolding indirectly affects children’s social development through the children’s attachment level.