Self-Regulation, Language Skills, and Emotion Knowledge in Young Children From Northern Germany

Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

Authors

Research Findings: In order to examine the explanatory power of behavioral self-regulation in the domain of emotion knowledge, especially in a non-U.S. culture, 365 German 4- and 5-year-olds were individually tested on these constructs. Path analyses revealed that children’s behavioral self-regulation explained their emotion knowledge in the context of the less instructionally oriented German kindergarten, much like in the United States. In addition, behavioral self-regulation contributed uniquely to the explanation of German children’s emotion knowledge, even when language skills and a measure of verbal conflict inhibition as known predictors of emotion knowledge were included as covariates. The path model for the 4-year-olds underlined the importance of behavioral self-regulation and showed less integration among verbal conflict inhibition, language skills, and emotion knowledge than that for the 5-year-olds. Practice or Policy: Results underline the importance of self-regulation for young children’s learning about emotions in all cultures, alone and in tandem with receptive language skills and abilities for (verbal) inhibition.

Original languageEnglish
JournalEarly Education and Development
Volume26
Issue number5-6
Pages (from-to)792-806
Number of pages15
ISSN1040-9289
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.07.2015

    Research areas

  • Psychology - Emotion knowledge, executive function, self-regulation, language skills

Recently viewed

Activities

  1. Interdisziplinäre Module: Zur Einführung interdisziplinärer Module an der Universität Flensburg
  2. "School on Campus - Online" - An innovative concept to link theory and praxis in teacher education
  3. Partizipation von CrowdworkerInnen auf Crowdsourcing Plattformen: Bestandsaufnahme und Ausblick
  4. MännerWeltWald - Natur- und Geschlechterkonstruktionen in Handlungsmustern von WaldakteurenInnen
  5. Validity of a mathematics test for the selection of university applicants for teacher training
  6. Switching on the lights inside the black box: How computer simulations observe the unobservable
  7. Computer Simulations in Design. How Social Media meet Computational Methods in Design Processes
  8. Crisis, Unrest, Common Sense. Environmental Societies of Control in the Films of Melanie Gilligan
  9. Das liebe Geld und die Kultur: Kooperation und Konkurrenz in der Hanse- und Kulturstadt Lüneburg
  10. The Dual Role of Price on Consumers' Purchase Intentions of Hedonic Versus Utilitarian Products
  11. Institutionelle Machtverteilung im globalen Feld und die Konsekrationsmacht von Institutionen
  12. Setting up a transnational, transdisciplinary and transformative research cooperation - but how?
  13. Agroecological practices in the Andean high lands: agrobiodiversity, culture and family farming
  14. Forschungsforum auf dem DGfE-Kongress „Bildung in der Demokratie“ an der Universität Mainz - 2010
  15. Bodenschutz im Spannungsfeld von Umwelt- und Naturschutz: Flächenrecycling und Naturschutzrecht
  16. Informal Competence Development of Volunteers of Sustainability Groups in Ecuador and Germany
  17. Conference Transdisciplinary Intercultural Ecological Research for Sustainability - TIERS 2012

Publications

  1. Introduction - Teaching Artistic Strategies. Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics and Ambiguity
  2. Regionale Weiterbildung – Chance oder Sackgasse für Frauen in Sozialen und Gesundheitsberufen
  3. Modellierung der Auswirkungen von Offshore Windenergieanlagen auf die Abiotik in der Nordsee
  4. Do persistent organic pollutants reach a thermodynamic equilibrium in the global environment?
  5. Modelling of heat exchangers based on thermochemical material for solar heat storage systems
  6. Landscape effects on bird and rodent communities and seed predation to agriculture in Israel.
  7. Zur Vereinbarkeit rationalistischer und kulturalistischer Ansätze in der Politikwissenschaft
  8. Status of the development of creep resistant magnesium materials for automotive applications
  9. Expanding or defending legitimacy? Why international organizations intensify self-legitimation
  10. Herrschaftskritische theoretische Praxis: Politisch-biographisches Gespräch mit Alex Demirovic
  11. Slowing resource loops in the Circular Economy: an experimentation approach in fashion retail
  12. Global warming will affect the genetic diversity and uniqueness of Lycaena helle populations
  13. Can Pulsed Electric Fields Treated Algal Cells Be Used as Stationary Phase in Chromatography?
  14. Monodominance in tropical forests: modelling reveals emerging clusters and phase transitions
  15. Mentale Modelle und Effekte der Präsentations- und Abrufkodalität beim Lernen mit Multimedia
  16. Grundsätzliches zu weltanschaulichen Voraussetzungen naturwissenschaftlicher Welterkenntnis
  17. Von der Erlebnis- zur Sinngesellschaft - Konsequenzen für die touristische Angebotsgestaltung