Investigating Correlates of Self-Regulation in Early Childhood with a Representative Sample of English-Speaking American Families

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 423-436

  Piotrowski, Jessica Taylor ^a   Lapierre, Matthew A ^b   Linebarger, Deborah L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic groups; Early childhood; Parenting style; Representative; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875396618     PISSN: 10621024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10826-012-9595-z     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Baumrind, D. (1967). Child care practices anteceding three patterns of preschool behavior. Genetic Psychology Monographs, 75(1), 43-88.
2. Baumrind, D. (1971). Current patterns of parental authority. Developmental Psychology Monographs, 4, 1-103.
3. Bernier, A., Carlson, S. M., & Whipple, N. (2010). From external regulation to self-regulation: Early parenting precursors of young children's executive functioning. Child Development, 81(1), 326-339.
4. Blair, C. (2002). School readiness. American Psychologist, 57, 111-127.
5. Bronfenbrenner, U., & Morris, P. (1998). The ecology of developmental processes. In W. Damon & N. Eisenberg (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology (5th ed., Vol. 1, Chap. 17, pp. 993-1028). New York: Wiley.
6. Buckner, J. C., Mezzacappa, E., & Beardslee, W. R. (2009). Self-regulation and its relations to adaptive functioning in low income youths. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 79, 19-30.
7. Bunge, S., & Zelazo, P. D. (2006). A brain-based account of the development of rule use in childhood. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 118-121.
8. Chang, L., & Krosnick, J. A. (2009). National surveys via RDD telephone interviewing versus the internet: Comparing sample representativeness and response quality. Public Opinion Quarterly, 73(4), 641-678.
9. Colman, R. A., Hardy, S. A., Albert, M., Raffaelli, M., & Crockett, L. J. (2006). Early predictors of self-regulation in middle childhood. Infant and Child Development, 15, 421-437.
10. Crossley, I. A., & Buckner, J. C. (2011). Maternal-related predictors of self-regulation among low-income youth. Journal of Child and Family Studies. doi: 10. 1007/s10826-011-9465-0.
11. Diamond, A. (2000). Close interrelation of motor development and cognitive development and of the cerebellum and prefrontal cortex. Child Development, 71(1), 44-56.
12. Duckworth, A. L., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2006). Self-discipline gives girls the edge: Gender in self-discipline, grades, and achievement test scores. Journal of Educational Psychology, 98(1), 198-208.
13. Eiden, R. D., Leonard, K. E., & Morrisey, S. (2001). Paternal alcoholism and toddler noncompliance. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 25, 1621-1633.
14. Entwisle, D. R., Alexander, K. L., & Olson, L. S. (2007). Early schooling: The handicap of being poor and male. The Sociology of Education, 80, 114-138.
15. Evans, G. W., & Rosenbaum, J. (2008). Self-regulation and the income-achievement gap. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 23, 504-514.
16. Feldman, R., & Klein, P. S. (2003). Toddlers' self-regulated compliance to mothers, caregivers, and fathers: Implications for theories of socialization. Developmental Psychology, 39(4), 680-692.
17. Grolnick, W. S., & Ryan, R. M. (1989). Parent styles associated with children's self-regulation and competence in school. Journal of Educational Psychology, 81(2), 143-154.
18. Howse, R., Lange, G., Farran, D., & Boyles, C. (2003). Motivation and self-regulation as predictors of achievement in economically disadvantaged young children. The Journal of Experimental Education, 71, 151-174.
19. Karreman, A., van Tuijl, C., van Aken, M. A. G., & Dekovic, M. (2006). Parenting and self-regulation in preschoolers: A meta-analysis. Infant and Child Development, 15, 561-579.
20. Kishiyama, M. M., Boyce, W. T., Jimenez, A. M., Perry, L. M., & Knight, R. T. (2009). Socioeconomic disparities affect prefrontal function in children. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(6), 1106-1115.
21. Kochanska, G., Coy, K. C., & Murray, K. T. (2001). The development of self-regulation in the first four years of life. Child Development, 72, 1091-1111.
22. Kochanska, G., & Knaack, A. (2003). Effortful control as a personality characteristic of young children: Antecedents, correlates, and consequences. Journal of Personality, 71, 1087-1112.
23. Kopp, C. B. (1982). Antecedents of self-regulation: A developmental perspective. Developmental Psychology, 18(2), 199-214.
24. Lewis, M. D., & Todd, R. M. (2007). The self-regulating brain: Cortical-subcortical feedback and the development of intelligent action. Cognitive Development, 22, 406-430.
25. Lohr, S. L. (2010). Sampling: Design and analysis (2nd ed.). Boston: Brooks/Cole.
26. Matthews, J. S., Ponitz, C. C., & Morrison, F. J. (2009). Early gender differences in self-regulation and academic achievement. Journal of Educational Psychology, 101(3), 689-704.
27. McClelland, M. M., Cameron, C. E., Connor, C. M., Farris, C. L., Jewkes, A. M., & Morrison, F. J. (2007). Links between behavioral regulation and preschoolers' literacy, vocabulary, and math skills. Developmental Psychology, 43, 947-959.
28. McGlamery, M. E., Ball, S. E., Henley, T. B., & Besozzi, M. (2007). Theory of mind, attention, and executive function in kindergarten boys. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 12(1), 29-47.
29. McKown, C., Gumbiner, L. M., Russo, N. M., & Lipton, M. (2009). Social-emotional learning skill, self-regulation, and social competence in typically developing and clinic-referred children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 38(6), 858-871.
30. Morris, M. A. (2003). The role of parenting style and the family characteristics of levels of organization and control in the development of self-regulation skills in young children (Vol. 64). University of Massachusetts: Dissertation Abstracts International.
31. Morrison, F. J., Bachman, H. J., & Connor, C. M. (2005). Improving literacy in America: Guidelines from research. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
32. Morrison, F. J., Ponitz, C. C., & McClelland, M. M. (2009). Self-regulation and academic achievement in the transition to school. In S. D. Calkins & M. A. Bell (Eds.), Child development at the intersection of emotion and cognition (pp. 203-224). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
33. Murry, V. M., & Brody, G. H. (1999). Self-regulation and self-worth of black children reared in economically stressed, rural, single mother-headed families. Journal of Family Issues, 20(4), 458-484.
34. Mutz, D. C. (2011). Population-based survey experiments. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
35. NICHD. (2003). Do children's attention processes mediate the link between family predictors and school readiness? Developmental Psychology, 39, 581-593.
36. Ponitz, C. C., McClelland, M. M., Jewkes, A., Connor, C., Farris, C., & Morrison, F. J. (2008). Touch your toes! Developing a direct measure of behavioral regulation in early childhood. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 23(2), 141-158.
37. Raffaelli, M., Crockett, L. J., & Shen, Y.-L. (2005). Developmental stability and change in self-regulation from childhood to adolescence. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 166(1), 54-75.
38. Reynolds, C. R., & Kampaus, R. W. (2004). BASC-2: Behavior assessment system for children (2nd ed.). Minneapolis, MN: Pearson.
39. Rideout, V., Vandewater, E. A., & Wartella, E. (2003). Zero to six: Electronic media in the lives of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Menlo Park, CA: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
40. Robinson, C. C., Mandleco, B., Olsen, S. F., & Hart, C. H. (1995). Authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive parenting practices: Development of a new measure. Psychological Reports, 77(3), 819-830.
41. Schunk, D. H., & Zimmerman, B. J. (1997). Social origins of self-regulatory competence. Educational Psychology, 32, 195-208.
42. Sektnan, M., McClelland, M. M., Acock, A., & Morrison, F. J. (2010). Relations between early family risk, children's behavioral regulation, and academic achievement. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 25, 464-479.
43. Sesma, H. W., Mahone, E. M., Levine, T., Eason, S. H., & Cutting, L. E. (2009). The contribution of executive skills to reading comprehension. Child Neuropsychology, 15(3), 232-246.
44. Simonds, J., Kieras, K., Rueda, M., & Rothbart, M. K. (2007). Effortful control, executive attention, and emotional regulation in 7-10-year-old children. Cognitive Development, 22(4), 474-488.
45. Stansbury, K., & Zimmerman, L. K. (1999). Relations among language skills, maternal socialization of emotion regulation, and child behavior problems. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 30, 121-142.
46. Stephenson, M. T., Quick, B. L., & Hirsch, H. A. (2010). Evidence in support of a strategy to target authoritarian and permissive parents in antidrug media campaigns. Communication Research, 37(1), 73-104. doi: 10. 1177/0093650209351471.
47. Sullivan, J. R., & Riccio, C. A. (2006). An empirical analysis of the BASC frontal lobe/executive control scale with a clinical sample. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 21(5), 495-501.
48. Sutcliffe, J. P. (1958). Error of measurement and the sensitivity of a test of significance. Psychometrika, 23(1), 9-17.
49. Tabachnick, B. G., & Fidell, L. S. (2007). Using multivariate statistics (5th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
50. Tudge, J. R., Odero, D. A., Hogan, D. M., & Etz, K. E. (2003). Relations between the everyday activities of preschoolers and their teachers' perceptions of their competence in the first years of school. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 18, 42-64.
51. Volling, B. L., Blandon, A. Y., & Kolak, A. M. (2006). Marriage, parenting, and the emergence of early self-regulation in the family system. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 15(4), 493-506.
52. Winship, C., & Radbill, L. (1994). Sampling weights and regression analysis. Sociological Methods and Research, 23(2), 230-257.
53. Zelazo, P. D., & Cunningham, W. (2007). Executive function: Mechanisms underlying emotion regulation. In J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of emotion regulation (pp. 135-158). New York: Guilford.