Table 3.
Mothers’ utterances | Child’s emotion situation knowledge |
---|---|
Cognitions | .15* |
Desires | −.04 |
Modulations of assertions | .06 |
Emotional states | −.05 |
Other mental states | .03 |
Behavior Descriptions | −.18* |
Emotional Behavior | −.14 |
Mental states focus | .20* |
Note.
p < .05, (all significance tests are one-tailed).
Partialing out culture, mother’s education, child’s language abilities, age, time and gender.