The Relationship between Children's Emotional and Cognitive Self-Regulation at 2 to 3 Years and Prosocial Behavior in the Early Years of School

• 영문명: The Relationship between Children's Emotional and Cognitive Self-Regulation at 2 to 3 Years and Prosocial Behavior in the Early Years of School
• 발행기관: The Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association(환태평양유아교육연구학회)
• 저자명: Donna Berthelsen Kate Williams
• 간행물 정보: 『Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association Annual Conference』Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association Annual Conference 제14호, 418~431쪽, 전체 14쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.06.01

영문 초록

This study used data from Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) to investigate how parent report of children’s emotional and cognitive regulation at age 2-3 years was associated with teacher ratings of children’s prosocial behaviors in the early years of school. A sample of 2,392 children was drawn from the LSAC Birth Cohort for the analyses. The analyses used structural equation modeling to estimate parameters of the relationships between key variables. Within the model, estimates of mother-reported emotional and cognitive regulation at age 2 to 3 years were significantly associated with teacher-reported prosocial behavior at 6 to 7 years. Emotional regulation was a slightly stronger indicator of prosocial behavior than cognitive regulation. Being female and from a family with a higher socioeconomic position were also associated with higher levels of prosocial behavior. Results are discussed in relation to the role of early childhood teachers in fostering children’s self-regulatory behaviors and in providing environments in which empathic and prosocial behaviors are modeled, guided, and scaffolded so that foundations are laid for caring behaviors to be understood and internalized by children.

목차

Introduction

The development of self-regulation

Empathic and prosocial behavior

Links between self-regulation and empathic behaviors

The present study

Method

Sample selection