Mothers' Attributions in Reminiscing Conversations About Children's Successes and Failures: Connections With Children's Self‐Evaluations

Effects of feedback on children's self-evaluations are well established, yet little is known about how parents talk with children about everyday successes and failures, despite the importance of parent-child reminiscing in children's psychological understanding. We examine mothers' attributions and performance evaluations in conversations about their 5-year-olds' (N = 80) success and failure experiences, and connections between conversations and...