An investigation of children’s peer trust across culture: Is the composition of peer trust universal?

Betts, Lucy R.; Rotenberg, Ken J.; Petrocchi, Serena; Lecciso, Flavia; Sakai, Atsushi; Maeshiro, Kazumi; Judson, Helen

doi:10.1177/0165025413505248

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“…We show for the first time that children's trust beliefs predicted secret‐keeping: Children who kept the secret throughout both interviews had higher trust beliefs scores than children who disclosed the secret at some point during questioning. These findings are consistent with the BDT interpersonal trust framework (e.g., Betts et al., ; Rotenberg, ; Rotenberg et al., ). According to the BDT framework, trust beliefs include the belief that others will keep a secret and trustworthiness is the act of actually keeping the secret.…”

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Social and Cognitive Factors Associated With Children's Secret‐Keeping for a Parent

2014

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This study examined children’s secret-keeping for a parent and its relationship to trust, theory of mind, secrecy endorsement, and executive functioning (EF). Children (N = 107) between 4 and 12 years of age participated in a procedure wherein parents broke a toy and asked children to promise secrecy. Responses to open-ended and direct questions were examined. Overall, secret-keeping increased with age and promising to keep the secret was related to fewer disclosures in open-ended questioning. Children who kept the secret in direct questioning exhibited greater trust and better parental ratings of EF than children who disclosed the secret. Findings highlight the importance of both social and cognitive factors in secret-keeping development.

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Social and Cognitive Factors Associated With Children's Secret‐Keeping for a Parent

2014

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“…Future studies might be interested in investigating the same patterns of relationships between variables considering the father's point of view and the role of possible mediators and moderators that our design did not include. Good candidates are the actual parenting behaviors, the psychological characteristics of the child, such as mentalization and trust (73)(74)(75)(76)(77), and the distribution of the caregiving responsibilities among family members.…”

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Maternal Distress/Coping and Children's Adaptive Behaviors During the COVID-19 Lockdown: Mediation Through Children's Emotional Experience

Petrocchi

Levante

Bianco

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Front. Public Health

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The present study focused on the psychological impact that the lockdown due to coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) had on families in Italy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Italian government imposed a strict lockdown for all citizens. People were forced to stay at home, and the length of the lockdown was uncertain. Previous studies analyzed the impact of social distance measures on individuals' mental health, whereas few studies have examined the interplay between the adults' functioning, as parents, during this period and the association with the child's adjustment. The present study tested if maternal distress/coping predicts children's behaviors during the COVID-19 lockdown, hypothesizing a mediation effect via children's emotional experience. Participants were 144 mothers (Mage = 39.3, 25–52, SD = 5.6) with children aged 5–10 years (Mage = 7.54, SD = 1.6, 82 boys); mothers answered to an online survey. Results indicated that mothers with higher exposure to COVID-19 showed higher levels of distress and higher display of coping attitudes, even if in the structural equation modeling model, the COVID-19 exposure was not a predictor of mothers' distress. Compared with mothers with good coping skills, mothers with higher stress levels were more likely to attribute negative emotions to their children at the expense of their positive emotions. Moreover, children's emotions acted as mediators between maternal distress/coping and children's adaptive/maladaptive behaviors. In conclusion, it is important to support parents during pandemic emergence, by providing them with adequate information to manage the relationship with their children, to reduce their level of distress and to enhance their coping abilities.

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“…The BDT posits that trust is composed of 3 Bases (reliability, emotional, and honesty) × 3 Domains (cognitive/affective, behavior‐dependent, and enacting) × 2 Targets (familiarity and specificity). Trust is regarded in the framework as a reciprocal process which results in a common social history for members of a dyad (see Betts et al, ).…”

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“…in the framework as a reciprocal process which results in a common social history for members of a dyad (see Betts et al, 2013).…”

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The Relation Between Children's Trust Beliefs and Theory of Mind Abilities

Rotenberg

Petrocchi

Lecciso

et al. 2014

Infant and Child Development

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The study examined the relation between children's trust beliefs and Theory of Mind (ToM) abilities. A sample of 168 Italian children (M = 9 years–6 months, SD = 7 months) were administered the Italian Children's Generalized Trust Beliefs (ICGTB) Scale, two Second‐Order False Belief ToM measures, and an Advanced ToM measure. As expected, the ICGTB scale demonstrated: (1) validity by its three factor structure and (2) reliability by exhibiting acceptable internal consistency and test–retest stability. As expected, the children's emotional trust beliefs in others were associated with both second‐order false belief ToM ability and advanced ToM ability. These relations were not attributable to verbal ability. The findings are discussed with respect to the relations among children's emotional trust beliefs, personal disclosure, and quality of attachment. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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An investigation of children’s peer trust across culture: Is the composition of peer trust universal?

Cited by 14 publications

References 69 publications

Social and Cognitive Factors Associated With Children's Secret‐Keeping for a Parent

Social and Cognitive Factors Associated With Children's Secret‐Keeping for a Parent

Maternal Distress/Coping and Children's Adaptive Behaviors During the COVID-19 Lockdown: Mediation Through Children's Emotional Experience

The Relation Between Children's Trust Beliefs and Theory of Mind Abilities

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