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The Parent Factor in Toddlers’ Self-Regulation – Parental Co-Regulation, Beliefs, and the Effectiveness of a Parent Training (Kim Gärtner)

• Beginn
  1. Oktober 2013
• Voraussichtliches Ende
  31. März 2019
• Abstract
  Self-regulation is one of the hallmarks in early childhood and develops in direct social interaction between the child and the caregiver (Kopp, 1982). Toddlerhood demarcates the beginning of a period of rapid growth in child self-regulation (Garon, Bryson, & Smith, 2008). This dissertation focuses on the parent factor in toddlers' self-regulation and addresses three major questions. First, how do parents’ co-regulation behaviour and self-efficacy beliefs relate to toddlers’ self-regulation and problem-solving performance? Second, which factors may affect parents’ co-regulation behaviour in toddlerhood? And third, how may parental coregulation behaviours and associated beliefs be promoted at an early stage? To address these questions, a quasi-experimental intervention study is conducted, including parents of full-term and preterm born two-year old toddlers.