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Direct linkKristy Timmons; Emma Bozek; Elizabeth Sharp – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
Based on emerging literature on the important role of self-regulation in supporting learning, policy makers have made efforts to include self-regulation skills in practice and policy documents worldwide. Despite these efforts, there is limited understanding of what self-regulation is and how best to support these skills in the day-to-day life of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Self Control, Metacognition
Download full textTutkun, Cansu; Tezel-Sahin, Fatma – African Educational Research Journal, 2022
In the early childhood period, self-regulation and delay of gratification are important skills. The lack of these skills may have a negative impact on children's development and learning. In this study, the relationship between pre-school children's delay of gratification and self-regulation skills was examined. Fifty-seven preschool children from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Self Control, Delay of Gratification
Aylin Sop – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2024
The present study examined the mediating role of self-regulation in the relationship between preschool children's anxiety and life skills. Children's anxiety, self-regulation, and life skills were assessed using the "Children's Anxiety Scale-Mothers' Form," "The Self-Regulation Skills Scale for Children aged 4 to 6 (Mothers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Anxiety, Daily Living Skills
Ün, Burcu; Koçyigit, Sezai – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
This study aimed to determine the meanings that mothers attribute to the concept of child and examine the self-regulation skill levels of their children within the context of the meaning attributed to the child. The research was carried out with a mixed method design entitled "Completely Mixed Sequential Equal Status Design". The study…
Descriptors: Mothers, Young Children, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries
van Berkel, Sheila R.; Groeneveld, Marleen G.; van der Pol, Lotte D.; Linting, Mariëlle; Mesman, Judi – Developmental Psychology, 2023
This study applies a "within-family, age-snapshot design" to investigate differences between siblings in the development of compliance during the preschool years by disaggregating situational, within-family, and between-family effects. The aim of the study was to investigate the relation between sibling differences in compliance and the…
Descriptors: Siblings, Preschool Children, Compliance (Psychology), Birth Order
Beatriz Lucas-Molina; Marta Giménez-Dasí; Laura Quintanilla; Renata Sarmento-Henrique – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings": Empathy is a relevant component of social interactions that can be observed from early childhood. Validated tests for young children are still scarce. This study has two goals: (1) to validate the modified two-factor version of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) in Spanish children between the ages of 3 and 8;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Interpersonal Relationship, Interpersonal Competence
Pala, F. Cansu; Lewis, Charlie – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
A grasp of the fact that emotional displays may not match a person's underlying feelings has been thought to develop in the elementary school years. Two prominent scales address the issue of how one might feel a negative feeling but need to display an different expression. Data from these scales suggest that children's comprehension of the need to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Emotional Response, Self Control, Emotional Development
Cañigueral, Roser; Barron, Katherine; Steinbeis, Nikolaus – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The present study used a novel, well-controlled paradigm to investigate the development of cool, hot-positive, and hot-negative inhibitory control in a sample of children (6- to 11-year-old; N = 38, 21 females), adolescents (12- to 18-year-old; N = 38, 24 females), and adults (19- to 38-year-old; N = 38, 28 females; sample location: United…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Self Control, Elementary School Students, Child Development
Kubota, Maki; Hadley, Lauren V.; Schaeffner, Simone; Könen, Tanja; Meaney, Julie-Anne; Morey, Candice C.; Auyeung, Bonnie; Moriguchi, Yusuke; Karbach, Julia; Chevalier, Nicolas – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The current study investigated the effects of metacognitive and executive function (EF) training on childhood EF (inhibition, working memory [WM], cognitive flexibility, and proactive/reactive control) and academic skills (reading, reasoning, and math) among children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Children (N = 134, M[subscript age] = 8.70 years)…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Executive Function, Academic Ability, Child Behavior
Dutra, Natália B.; Chen, Lydia; Anum, Adote; Burger, Oskar; Davis, Helen E.; Dzokoto, Vivian A.; Fong, Frankie T. K.; Ghelardi, Sabrina; Mendez, Kimberly; Messer, Emily J. E.; Newhouse, Morgan; Nielsen, Mark G.; Ramos, Karlos; Rawlings, Bruce; dos Santos, Renan A. C.; Silveira, Lara G. S.; Tucker-Drob, Elliot M.; Legare, Cristine H. – Developmental Science, 2022
Self-regulation is a widely studied construct, generally assumed to be cognitively supported by executive functions (EFs). There is a lack of clarity and consensus over the roles of specific components of EFs in self-regulation. The current study examines the relations between performance on (a) a self-regulation task (Heads, Toes, Knees Shoulders…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Self Control, Short Term Memory, Visual Perception
Mehboob Ul Hassan; Tanveer Kouser; Abid Hussain Chaudhary; Haq Nawaz – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
Lifespan is a pool of stories that, in the beginning, sets the tone. It lays the foundation for students' long-life learning, attitudes formation, behavioral modifications, and shapes the trajectories of students' early childhood development (an important thread of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Target 4.2 bedrock on "access to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Empathy, Child Development
Lin, Xunyi; Liao, Yutong; Li, Hui – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: The impact of the newly launched "two-child policy" on young children's social development has not been empirically studied. This study examined the possible mediating and moderating factors in the relationship between parenting styles and social competence in Chinese preschoolers. A sample of only children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Family Size, Social Development
Joke Heylen; Samuel Budniok; Magali Van de Walle; Rudi De Raedt; Patricia Bijttebier; Simon De Winter; Guy Bosmans – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2024
Latent growth curve modeling was used to investigate the longitudinal link between attachment, effortful control (EC), and maladaptive development during middle childhood. In a community sample, children (Time 1: n = 157; M[subscript age] = 10.91) and their mothers were examined three times over a two-year period. Attachment was operationalized at…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Self Control, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Problems
Andrea Tamblyn; Yihan Sun; Angela North; Nicci Godsman; Crystal Boothby; Helen Skouteris; Claire Blewitt – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
This study explored educators' perspectives on the role the physical and sensory Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) environment plays in supporting children's social and emotional development. Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted, in August 2022, at two ECEC sites in Victoria, Australia. Data were thematically analysed and key…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Child Care
Carmen Rodríguez-Menéndez; Carmen M. Fernández-García; María Elena Rivoir-González – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2024
Objective: The present study examined the antecedents and consequences of perceived parental autonomy support and psychological control. More specifically, we had three aims: a) to investigate the associations between parents' expectations and beliefs about parenting and perceived parental autonomy support and psychological control; b) to analyse…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles, Gender Differences, Prosocial Behavior
