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ERIC Number: EJ1367190
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Feb
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
EISSN: EISSN-1939-0599
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Yes, No, Maybe So: Caregiver Autonomy Support, Conversation Context, and Children's Memory Performance
Slonecker, Emily M.; Klemfuss, J. Zoe
Developmental Psychology, v59 n2 p285-296 Feb 2023
The extant literature on the use of autonomy support during caregiver-child conversations has focused primarily on conversations about fun, shared experiences, with limited consideration of unshared experiences or attention toward the role of conversation context. The present study examined how autonomy support, conversation context, and child age interact to predict 3-to-5-year-old children's disclosure of accurate information when discussing an unshared past event with their caregiver and an experimenter. Dyads (N = 111) were recruited from two locations (Miami, Florida and Orange County, California) by research recruitment firms. Children completed a standardized activity alone and then discussed the activity with their caregiver. The context of the discussion was manipulated so that dyads focused on either accumulating facts (Fact condition) or having fun (Fun condition). Afterward, children discussed the activity with a neutral interviewer. Caregivers in the fact condition were less autonomy supportive when discussing the activity than those in the fun condition. During the caregiver-child interview, caregiver autonomy support was negatively associated with children's disclosure of correct event details for those in the fun condition only. Caregiver autonomy support was negatively associated with children's correct details during the experiment-child interview across both context conditions. While older children provided more correct details during both interviews, there were no other age-related effects. These results demonstrate that conversation context moderates the link between autonomy support and children's autobiographical memory performance. Past contradictory findings in the field are discussed in light of these results.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Florida (Miami); California
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