The Influence of Parental Socioeconomic Background and Gender on Self-Regulation Among 5-Year-Old Children in Norway

Størksen, Ingunn; Ellingsen, Ingunn T.; Wanless, Shannon B.; McClelland, Megan M.

doi:10.1080/10409289.2014.932238

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“…This result was confirmed in very recent research (Shoenberger and Rocheleau 2017), which showed that females have higher levels of selfcontrol than males and that this difference is accounted for by parenting factors. The difference in self-regulation was also assessed in five-year-old Norwegian children (Størksen et al 2015). The results of this study indicated that girls outperformed boys in different types of behavioural regulation.…”

Section: Regulatory Focus In Economic Decisionsmentioning

confidence: 88%

The role of self-control and regulatory foci in money-saving behaviours among children

2018

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The studies aimed to discover if it is possible to increase children's ability to defer consumption in favour of saving money by drawing attention to the importance of self-control and by inducing regulatory focus of promotion or prevention. The first study confirmed that economic behaviours of children are connected to their level of self-control. Next, in two experimental studies, self-control and regulatory focus were experimentally induced in 9-to 11-year-old children. The second study (n = 158) showed that self-control activation results in preference of saving over immediate consumption for boys but not for girls. The third study (n = 144) showed that promotion regulatory focus activation results in preference of saving over immediate consumption, while after the activation of prevention regulatory focus, children prefer immediate consumption. The results indicate that sole activation in children's thinking about the importance of self-control or about specific self-regulation motivations may influence saving behaviours. Nevertheless, due to the fact that males and females differ in self-control levels and in motivation for goal pursuit, inducing self-control or specific regulatory focus in children may have different effects on economic decisions, depending on a child's gender.

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Section: Regulatory Focus In Economic Decisionsmentioning

confidence: 88%

The role of self-control and regulatory foci in money-saving behaviours among children

2018

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“…the SSKJ 3-8 with other variables across countries. Moreover, possible moderator variables such as gender (Eschenbeck et al, 2007;Weis et al, 2013), parents' level of education, and the socioeconomic status of the family (e.g., Kagitçibasi, 1996;Sektnan et al, 2010;Størksen et al, 2014) could be included in further studies with larger samples.…”

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Assessing Emotion Regulation Strategies in Chile: A Spanish Language Adaptation of the German SSKJ 3-8 Scales

Weis

Heine

2020

Front. Psychol.

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The aim of the present study is the psychometric review of a Spanish language version of the German Stress and Coping Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (SSKJ 3-8). The SSKJ 3-8 assesses emotion regulation strategies by asking children to indicate how often they use five different emotion regulation strategies in response to a social and an academic stress situation. The Spanish language adaptation of the inventory was developed for a cross-cultural study with Chilean and German fourth-graders. The sample includes 76 German and 169 Chilean fourth graders. The SSKJ 3-8 was first translated into Spanish by a bilingual translator, then back-translated by a German native speaker, and finally adapted for the cultural context in Chile. To analyze the psychometric comparability, the measurement invariance was examined within the framework of the Item Response Theory (IRT) with the R package pairwise. The results show that the new developed Spanish language adaptation of the SSKJ 3-8 is comparable to the German version in terms of psychometric measurement characteristics. Only few items show deviations with regard to strong measurement invariance. We conclude that the Spanish language adaptation of the SSKJ 3-8 is a reliable instrument to assess emotion regulation strategies in Chile.

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“…The Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders (HTKS) task, a variant of the Simon Says game, is one such behavioral measure that can be used to assess EC (Cameron, McClelland, Matthews, & Morrison, 2009). The HTKS has been widely applied in different cultural contexts, such as the United States, South Korea, China, and several European countries (Cadima, Gamelas, McClelland, & Peixoto, 2015;Gestsdottir et al, 2014;Størksen, Ellingsen, Wanless, & McClelland, 2015;Wanless et al, 2013). The present study also used the HTKS task as an indicator of EC.…”

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Effortful Control and Academic Achievement in Rural China

Zhang

Rao

2016

Early Education and Development

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Research Findings: This study investigated the relationships between effortful control and early literacy and mathematics achievement. A total of 181 children (85 girls and 96 boys) from rural China were assessed when they were in Grades 1 and 2. Path analyses controlling for maternal education indicated that effortful control at the beginning of Grade 1 predicted incremental achievement in literacy and mathematics at the end of Grade 1 and mathematics achievement at the end of Grade 2. Growth in effortful control during Grade 1 also contributed significantly to the prediction of both literacy and mathematics achievement at the end of Grade 2. Although girls performed significantly better than boys in literacy achievement, gender did not moderate the relationships between effortful control and literacy and mathematics achievement. Practice or Policy: Children's effortful control appears to be an important predictor of early literacy and mathematics achievement. Findings suggest that children's effortful control should be fostered during the preschool and early years of formal schooling, and this can be done in both home and school contexts.

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The Influence of Parental Socioeconomic Background and Gender on Self-Regulation Among 5-Year-Old Children in Norway

Cited by 64 publications

References 49 publications

The role of self-control and regulatory foci in money-saving behaviours among children

The role of self-control and regulatory foci in money-saving behaviours among children

Assessing Emotion Regulation Strategies in Chile: A Spanish Language Adaptation of the German SSKJ 3-8 Scales

Effortful Control and Academic Achievement in Rural China

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