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Baptista, J., Osório, A., Martins, E. C., Castiajo, P., Barreto, A. L., Mateus, V....Martins, C. (2017). Maternal and paternal mental-state talk and executive function in preschool children. Social Development. 26 (1), 129-145

J. I. Baptista et al.,  "Maternal and paternal mental-state talk and executive function in preschool children", in Social Development, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 129-145, 2017

@article{baptista2017_1716171806383,
	author = "Baptista, J. and Osório, A. and Martins, E. C. and Castiajo, P. and Barreto, A. L. and Mateus, V. and Soares, I. and Martins, C.",
	title = "Maternal and paternal mental-state talk and executive function in preschool children",
	journal = "Social Development",
	year = "2017",
	volume = "26",
	number = "1",
	doi = "10.1111/sode.12183",
	pages = "129-145",
	url = "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sode.12183"
}

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Maternal and paternal mental-state talk and executive function in preschool children
T2  - Social Development
VL  - 26
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AU  - Baptista, J.
AU  - Osório, A.
AU  - Martins, E. C.
AU  - Castiajo, P.
AU  - Barreto, A. L.
AU  - Mateus, V.
AU  - Soares, I.
AU  - Martins, C.
PY  - 2017
SP  - 129-145
SN  - 0961-205X
DO  - 10.1111/sode.12183
UR  - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sode.12183
AB  - The present study examined the relationship between parents’ mental-state talk and preschoolers’ executive function. Seventy-two children participated in the present study, as well as their mothers and fathers. When children were enrolled in the second preschool year, mothers’ and fathers’ use of mental-state references were assessed during a shared picture-book reading task with the child. Later, four months before admission to the 1st grade, preschoolers’ executive function was measured. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that maternal, but not paternal, mental-state talk was a significant predictor of children’s executive function composite, even after accounting for child gender, age, verbal ability and parental education. When looking at each of the EF components, maternal mental-state talk proved to be a predictor of set-shifting, whereas no significant relations emerged with inhibitory control or working memory. These findings add to prior research on parenting quality and executive function in preschoolers.
ER  -