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3079.2 The interpretive theory of mind in children aged 5 to 8, Yan Wang, Yanjie Su, Peking
University, China
5- to 8-year-olds’ appreciation of the interpretive character of mental process was investigated. In
study 1, stimuli characteristics did not influence children’s performance, and only the 8-year-old
children steadily understood the ambiguous stimuli. In study 2, in which observers’ expectations
were based on prior viewing experience, knowledge level, short-term experience and social
prejudice, predicting observers’ interpretations based on different knowledge level was most
difficult, and predicting those based on social prejudice was the easiest. These results suggested
that 8-year-olds readily grasped the interpretive nature of mind, and children’s varying
performance depends more on the observers’ expectations than the ambiguous stimuli.
3079.3 The impact of child right awareness package on knowledge gain of urban adolescents,
Shobha Nandwana, Alka Kamra, College of home science, MPUAT, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
Children’s basic needs and fundamental rights are denied, cannot be expected to be mature and
productive adults, taking care for the rights of other and their duties at the same time. The study
was undertaken with the aim of providing child right awareness package to adolescent of 14-16
years The total sample consisted of 60 Boys. The Child right knowledge test constructed by
Mullick & Nandwana (1996) & Kamra & Nandwana (1999) was used to provide awareness in
child right. The results revealed that there was significant improvement in the knowledge gain &
experimental group are the control group.
3079.4 The exchanging behavior in 3-5 years old children, Yan Mu, Zijing He, Yanjie Su,
Peking University, China
This study aimed to reveal behavior pattern among 3-5 years old children in exchanging situation,
and detect children’s ability of utilizing the social perceptual information to guide their
exchanging choice. 100 3-5 years old children participated in this experiment. The results showed,
children’s performance in exchanging task improved significantly with age, and their explanation
regarding successful exchanging gradually attributed more on the people involved rather than
exchanging goods. It was suggested that during 3 to 5 years, there exists important development in
utilizing the social perceptual information to guide behavioral decision, and may related to
children’s development in theory-of-mind.
3080 ORAL
Health psychology
Chair: France Kittel, Belgium
3080.1 Socio-economic work environment and mental health, France Kittel 1 , Johnny
Fontaine 2 , Isabelle Godin 1 , 1 Université Libre Bruxelles - Public health School, Belgium;
2
Universiteit Gent Belgium
Four Belgian enterprises going from stable to very unstable in a prospective design with 2
repeated measures were investigated. Logistic regressions showed that independently of age, sex,
education but also of individual stress dimensions (Karasek, Siegrist), the instability of the
enterprise contributed significantly to the increase of risk for various mental health indicators. As
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