The Promotion of Self-Regulation as a Means of Enhancing School Readiness and Early Achievement in Children at Risk for School Failure

Author: Ursache, Alexandra; Blair, Clancy; Raver, C. Cybele

Description: This article reviews the literature on self-regulation and the development of school readiness and academic competence in early childhood. It focuses on relations between the development of cognitive aspects of regulation-referred to as executive functions and defined as abilities used to regulate information and to organize thinking in goal-directed activities-and the development of reactivity and regulation in stimulus-driven emotion, attention, and physiological stress response systems. It examines a bidirectional model of cognition-emotion interaction in the development of self-regulation in which top-down executive control of thought and behavior develops in reciprocal and interactive relation to bottom-up influences of emotion and stress reactivity. The bidirectional model is examined within the context of innovative preschool interventions designed to promote school readiness by promoting the development of self-regulation.

Subject headings: Emotion regulation; Executive functions; School readiness; Self-regulation; Preschool

Publication year: 2012

Journal or book title: Child Development Perspectives

Volume: 6

Issue: 2

Pages: 122-128

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Serial number: 3366

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