Thinking about thinking: A longitudinal investigation of the developmental link between metacognition, inhibitory control and theory of mind

Symeonidou, Mariel, Ross, Josephine and Doherty, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4314-7892 (2024) Thinking about thinking: A longitudinal investigation of the developmental link between metacognition, inhibitory control and theory of mind. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. ISSN 0022-0965 (In Press)

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Abstract

This longitudinal study tracked the developmental relationship between metacognition, theory of mind and inhibitory control in N=52 Scottish children across a 1.5-year interval, beginning at 3 to 4 years. Metacognition and inhibitory control emerged before theory of mind and were predictive of growth in theory of mind competence. Moreover, there was evidence of developmental mediation, whereby metacognition predicted inhibitory control which predicted theory of mind. We suggest that metacognitive self-reflection may provide the ‘developmental enrichment’ necessary to think about thinking in Scottish children, and when inhibitory control is sufficiently developed, this thinking can be extended to complex reasoning about own and other minds.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	3* ,/dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/REFrank/3_
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > UEA Experimental Philosophy Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	24 Sep 2024 12:56
Last Modified:	24 Sep 2024 12:56
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96798
DOI:	issn:0022-0965

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