Micro-Cultural Influences on Theory of Mind Development: A Comparative Study of Middle-Class and "Pemulung" Children in Jakarta, Indonesia

Autor/inn/en	Kuntoro, Ike Anggraika; Saraswati, Liliek; Peterson, Candida; Slaughter, Virginia
Titel	Micro-Cultural Influences on Theory of Mind Development: A Comparative Study of Middle-Class and "Pemulung" Children in Jakarta, Indonesia
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 37 (2013) 3, S.266-273 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025413478258
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Theory of Mind; Middle Class; Native Language; Cultural Differences; Beliefs; Preschool Children; Poverty; Socioeconomic Status; Measures (Individuals); Cross Cultural Studies; Testing; Comparative Analysis; Australia; Indonesia (Jakarta); Home Observation for Measurement of Environment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Mittelschicht; Kultureller Unterschied; Belief; Glaube; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Armut; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Messdaten; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Testdurchführung; Testen; Australien
Abstract	We investigated cultural influences on young children's acquisition of social-cognitive concepts. A theory of mind (ToM) scale (Wellman & Liu, 2004) was given to 129 children (71 boys, 58 girls) ranging in age from 3 years 0 months to 7 years 10 months. The children were from three distinct cultural groups: (a) trash pickers ("pemulung") living a subsistence lifestyle in Jakarta, Indonesia; (b) middle-class Jakartans living and attending preschools within 5 km of the "pemulung" group; and (c) middle-class Australians. All children were individually tested in their native language. Cross-group comparisons revealed no significant differences among the three groups in mastery of false belief (the traditional ToM indicator), despite their widely different socio-economic circumstances. However, the "pemulung" children were slower than the two middle-class groups in mastering two other ToM concepts, namely knowledge access and emotion concealment. These findings shed new light on patterns of cross-cultural consistency in false-belief mastery, as well as revealing cross-cultural variation in other ToM concepts that plausibly reflect variation in children's everyday life circumstances. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10