就学前児をもつ中国の母親の信念 : 指導法に関する母親の信念,行動および子どもの表象的思考力の関係

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among mothers' beliefs about teaching and control strategies, mothers' behaviors towards preschool-age chiidren, and children's representational thinking. Chinese preschoolers (5 to 6-year-olds) and their mothers were the subjects. Three kinds of tests were administered to children : (a) Bruner's 2 dimension order's arrangement tasks ; (b) number conservation tasks : and (c) four subtests of the WPPSI, i.e., block design, picture completion, comprehension, and similarities. Mothers' beliefs were assessed by interviews, and mothers' behaviors by a questionnaire. The results were as follows : (1) significant correlations were found between the mothers' beliefs about ihductive control strategies and the mothers' non-distancing behaviors. (2) The mother's beliefs concerning inductive control strategies, but not those concerning indirect teaching strategies, were positively related to the children's cognitive performances. (3) The performances in Bruner's tasks were positively related to the mother's distancing behaviors and negatively related to the mother's non-distancing behaviors. These findings suggest that mothers' beliefs are useful in predicting mothers' behaviors towards children, and children's representational thinking.
1991-09-20