Researchers have speculated that a number of factors likely predict the quality of reminiscing between preschool children and their mothers. This study was designed to investigate three such factors, including child temperament, maternal personality, and maternal caregiving representations. Seventy mothers and their preschool children were recruited for the study. When the child was 42 months of age, mothers completed measures of her personality and the child's temperament. Mothers also took part in the shortened Parent Development Inventory, which was coded for coherence, pleasure, comfort, and perspective taking. At both 42 and 48 months, the mother–child dyad reminisced about a past event in which the child experienced a negative emotion. These conversations were coded for the amount of maternal elaboration, the discussion of emotion, and dyadic qualities (such as collaboration and intersubjectivity). At 42 months, aspects of maternal personality and child temperament were most associated with reminiscing quality. However, at 48 months, it was primarily maternal representations of relationships that predicted high-quality reminiscing in the dyad.

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预测 42 和 48 个月大时母子回忆周围负面情绪事件的质量

研究人员推测，许多因素可能会预测学龄前儿童与其母亲之间回忆的质量。本研究旨在调查三个这样的因素，包括孩子的气质、母亲的个性和母亲的照顾表现。该研究招募了 70 名母亲及其学龄前儿童。在孩子 42 个月大时，妈妈们完成了对孩子性格和气质的测量。母亲们还参与了缩短的父母发展量表，该量表被编码为连贯性、愉悦、舒适和观点。在 42 个月和 48 个月时，母子二人回忆起过去的事件，孩子在其中经历了负面情绪。这些对话被编码为大量的母性阐述、情感的讨论、和二元特性（例如协作和主体间性）。在 42 个月大时，母亲的性格和孩子的气质与回忆质量最相关。然而，在 48 个月时，主要是母性关系的表征预测了二元组的高质量回忆。