Maternal and paternal mental-state talk and executive function in preschool children

This research was supported by Grant COMPETE: FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-015504 from Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia, and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through the European program COMPETE (Operational Programme for Competitiveness Factors) under the National Strategic Reference Framework (QREN) attributed to the research project titled ‘Children’s socio-emotional-cognitive school readiness: A longitudinal approach to its developmental course during preschool years’ (PTDC/PSI-EDD/114527/2009; also grant SFRH/BPD/100994/2014 assigned to the first author). The authors are very grateful to the students who helped with data collection. Special thanks go to the children and families who participated in the study.