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초록

This study investigated the relationship between a mother's parenting attitude, a sense of humor, and a child's understanding of false beliefs. 135 mothers and their 3 to 5 year old children participated. A task for understanding false beliefs and PRES were conducted for each child, and the mother's parenting attitude and sense of humor were surveyed through a Maternal Behavior Research Instrument(MBRI) and Sense of Humor Questionnaire(SHQ). MBRI measured four aspects of parenting attitude focusing on affective, receptive, independent, extrovertive. SHQ measured three aspects of humor sense on meta-message humor sensitivity, liking of humor, emotional humor expressiveness. The collected data were analyzed with Pearson’s correlation and multiple regression using SPSS 21.0 program. The major findings are as follows. The mother's positive parenting attitude and sense of humor emotion were positively related. And even after controlling the children’s age and language ability, the expression of the mother's humor was found to have a significant influence on the child's understanding of false beliefs. These results provide support for associations between parent–child interactions and early social-cognitive development.

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