Attachment Parenting and Theory of Mind in 8 to11 Year-old Students with Intellectual Disability

Abstract

The present research aims at studying attachment parenting style and the theory of mind in 8 to11 year-old students with intellectual disability in Gonabad City. Statistical population of this causal-comparative research includes all intellectually disabled students in an exceptional school (Gonabad city, Alavian school), all of whom were selected as sample. Descriptive and deductive methods(independent T test) were applied for data analysis. Findings show that there is no significant relationship between attachment parenting style and theory of mind in intellectually disabled students that gave correct or incorrect responses (p</005) to assignments.

Keywords

• attachment theory of mind
• intellectual disability