Telling a "baby story": Mothers narrating their pre-schoolers' past across two cultural contexts.

Autor/inn/en	Schröder, Lisa; Kärtner, Joscha; Keller, Heidi
Titel	Telling a "baby story": Mothers narrating their pre-schoolers' past across two cultural contexts. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Eine "Babygeschichte" erzählen: Mütter aus zwei Kulturen erzählen ihren Vorschulkindern aus deren Vergangenheit.
Quelle	In: Memory, 23 (2015) 1, S. 39-54 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0965-8211; 1464-0686
DOI	10.1080/09658211.2014.931974
Schlagwörter	Erinnerung; Gedächtnis; Frühe Kindheit; Mutter; Kind; Mutter-Kind-Kommunikation; Kleinkind; Interkulturelle Differenz; Autobiografie; Erzählung; Individualismus; Kollektivismus; Entwicklung; Lebensrückblick
Abstract	Mothers from two middle-class contexts from Berlin, Germany (n = 35), and Delhi, India (n = 28) told a baby story to their 3-year olds about an event that had happened during the children's first year of life. The contexts represented two cultural models: the model of psychological autonomy (Berlin) and the model of autonomy-relatedness (Delhi). The authors investigated the culture-specific functions of this reminiscing task as reflected in the structure, content and specificity of the stories. The stories in both contexts were minimally interactive, and the children contributed few elaborations themselves. Stories told by the Berlin mothers were longer and more specific. Mothers in both contexts were similarly elaborative relative to being repetitive. The stories were highly child-centered in both contexts but even more child-centered for Delhi. Importantly, maternal narrations from the Berlin context were embedded in a frame story that characterized the child's individual past; stories thus constructed "exclusive baby stories". Most stories told by the Delhi mothers had no frame story but instead were about what the child used to do as a baby in general; they thus constructed "routine baby stories". Results are interpreted in the view of the underlying self, social and directive functions of this reminiscing task. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
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