Table 3.

Partial Correlations Between Mother References to Mental States and Behaviors and Children’s Emotion Situation Knowledge

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).

^aPartialing out culture, mother’s education, child’s language abilities, age, time and gender.