Herndon Kristina J, Bailey Craig S, Shewark Elizabeth A, Denham Susanne A, Bassett Hideko H
Department of Psychology - MSN 3F5, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA.
J Genet Psychol. 2013 Sep-Dec;174(5-6):642-63. doi: 10.1080/00221325.2012.759525.
Children's expression and regulation of emotions are building blocks of their experiences in classrooms. Thus, the authors' primary goal was to investigate whether preschoolers' expression or ability to regulate emotions were associated with teachers' ratings of school adjustment. A secondary goal was to investigate how boys and girls differed across these associations. Children's social-emotional behaviors in Head Start and private childcare center classrooms were observed, and using a series of measures, teachers' ratings of children's social competence, attitudes toward school, positive teacher relationships, and cooperative participation were collected. Three factors of children's school adjustment were extracted from these indicators. A series of hierarchical regressions revealed that emotion expression and regulation were indeed associated with children's reported school adjustment, with the strongest associations stemming from children's negative emotion expression and their emotion dysregulation. Many of these associations were also different for boys and girls. The results corroborate and extend the authors' earlier findings, and have implications for social-emotional programming to maximize children's early school success.
儿童情绪的表达与调节是他们课堂体验的基石。因此,作者的主要目标是调查学龄前儿童的情绪表达或调节能力是否与教师对学校适应情况的评分相关。次要目标是研究男孩和女孩在这些关联方面存在哪些差异。观察了儿童在“启智计划”项目及私立儿童保育中心课堂上的社会情感行为,并通过一系列测量方法收集了教师对儿童社会能力、对学校的态度、与教师的积极关系以及合作参与度的评分。从这些指标中提取了儿童学校适应的三个因素。一系列分层回归分析表明,情绪表达和调节确实与儿童报告的学校适应情况相关,其中最强的关联来自儿童的负面情绪表达及其情绪调节障碍。男孩和女孩在许多这些关联方面也存在差异。研究结果证实并扩展了作者早期的发现,对社会情感规划具有启示意义,有助于最大限度地提高儿童早期学业成就。