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Luisa Marie Lüken; Judith Rebecca Silkenbeumer; Manfred Holodynski; Joscha Kärtner – Social Development, 2025
Effective emotion regulation is critical for establishing and maintaining positive relationships, and it has previously been linked to several indicators of social competence. Theories agree that one core characteristic of adaptive emotion regulation is the ability to flexibly adapt emotion regulation strategies to situational demands (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Learning Strategies, Psychological Patterns
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Lunkenheimer, Erika S.; Kemp, Christine J.; Albrecht, Erin C. – Social Development, 2013
Predictable patterns in early parent-child interactions may help lay the foundation for how children learn to self-regulate. The present study examined contingencies between maternal teaching and directives and child compliance in mother-child problem-solving interactions at age 3.5 and whether they predicted children's behavioral regulation and…
Descriptors: Self Control, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Compliance (Psychology)
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Rodriguez, Monica L.; Ayduk, Ozlem; Aber, J. Lawrence; Mischel, Walter; Sethi, Anita; Shoda, Yuichi – Social Development, 2005
A prospective study examined the effects of maternal unresponsivity and of toddlers' own negative affect on the child's subsequent ability to use effective attentional control strategies in preschool. Maternal and child behaviors were measured in situations that varied in the level of stress to test the hypothesis that behaviors in high stress…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Preschool Children, Interpersonal Competence, Self Control