Document Type : Research Article
Authors
1 university of Tabriz
2 University of Tabriz
Abstract
Introduction
The preschool years are a key period of development where social relationships, especially with parents, play a prominent role in how children regulate their emotions. One of the skills that children can acquire in this course is emotion regulation skills. Emotion regulation includes all internal and external processes through which people manage their emotions to achieve their goals. Effortful control of other research variables includes the ability to inhibit or suppress a dominant response in order to perform a secondary, less salient response and detect errors. The Tuning in to Kids program for children is one of the parent group programs that teaches parents of preschool children awareness and emotion regulation skills and emotion coaching skills at the global level. The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of the Tuning in to Kids program on the skills of emotional regulation and effortful control of preschool children.
Method
The method of the present research was a semi-experimental type. The statistical population of the research was preschool children of Marand city. The target sample was 40 preschool children of Marand city, who had low scores based on the cutoff point of Shields and Cichetti's emotion regulation test and Rothbart et al.'s child behavior, and they were selected randomly in experimental groups (20 people) and Control (20 people) were replaced. The experimental group was trained in the Tuning in to Kids program for children, and the intervention was carried out for 8 sessions of 90 minutes and once a week on the experimental group. Data were analyzed using mixed multivariate analysis of variance.
Results
The results of this research showed that the average of the experimental and control groups had significant differences in effortful control variables and emotion regulation skills. Also, the findings indicated the effectiveness and durability of the Tuning in to Kids program on emotional regulation skills (p=0.05) and effortful control (p=0.05) of preschool children.
Discussion
Based on the results, it can be concluded that the Tuning in to Kids program for children, by emphasizing awareness, regulation, expression and understanding of positive emotions, increases the skill of emotional regulation in children. Also, by increasing emotional awareness, this parent-centered program helps children to become more aware of their impulses and reactions and develop the ability to exercise conscious control over their emotional and behavioral responses. Therefore, educators and parents can use this educational package to increase the skills of emotion regulation and effortful control in preschool children.
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