أثر أنماط ما وراء الانفعال الوالدي في تطور نظرية العقل لدى أطفال ما قبل المدرسة
This study aimed to reveal the effect of parental Meta- emotion patterns on the theory of mind in a sample that consisted of (174) pre - school children and their parents, who were Chosen using the available method, from Irbid governorate during the first semester of the academic year 2020-2021.The results showed that there is a high level of the parental meta-emotion pattern (rejection of negative emotions) and a medium level of the patterns acceptance of negative emotion, emotion coaching and feelings of uncertainty). The results also showed that there are differences in the pattern of (emotion coatching) among fathers due to the variable of birth arrangement in favor of the first child and in the pattern (feelings of uncertainty) among mothers due to the variable of gender in favor of girls and due to the variable of birth arrangement in favor of the first child. The results also indicated that there is a medium level of development of the theory of mind, as well as the absence of differences in the development of the theory of mind due to the variables of the child's gender, birth order and the educational level of the parents. The results also revealed that there is an effect of parental meta-emotion (emotion cotching, rejection of negative emotions and feelings of uncertainty) on the theory of mind, where those patterns explained (45.6%) of the variance in the level of performance on the tasks of the theory of mind among pre-schoolers'. (Published abstract)