Effect of metacognition on personal epistemology with the mediating role of theory of mind
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Background

Over the recent decades, personal epistemology or the nature of human knowledge with some concepts including metacognition and theory of mind, which emphasized that people interpret the behavior of others based on their own mental beliefs, inner intentions, thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, were considered by psychologists. In congruence with previous studies, there is a research gap in children's understanding of the nature of knowledge and the impact of metacognition and theory of mind on their epistemology.

Aims

This study aimed to investigate the effect of metacognition on personal epistemology with the mediating role of theory of mind or the examination of the inner intentions and, understanding of the cause of behavior, mind, thinking, belief, and knowledge in third to sixth-grade students.

Methods

This was a fundamental and descriptive-correlational study based on purpose and data collection, respectively. The sample consisted of 303 (101 boys and 202 girls) elementary students in the third to sixth grades of Khorramabad, Iran. They were selected by stepwise cluster sampling method. Participants responded to the metacognitive skills questionnaire (Sperling et al., 2001), Streenerman Mind Theory Test (1994), and the Children's Personal Epistemology Questionnaire (Tanha et al., 2019). Besides, data were analyzed using structural equation modeling.

Results

The results illustrated that the proposed model had a good fit with the data. Accordingly, the direct path of metacognition on the theory of mind and personal epistemology and the direct path of the theory of mind on personal epistemology were significant (p<0/01). Also, the indirect effect of metacognition on personal epistemology through mind theory was also significant (p<0/01).

Conclusion

Metacognition, mind theory, and personal epistemology have theoretical common dimensions. It seems conducting more extended field studies and clarifying more aspects of this relationship can have more practical applications in the educational setting

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Persian
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Journal of Psychological Sciences, Volume:21 Issue: 119, 2023
Pages:
2303 to 2316
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