TY - JOUR AU - Esquivel Y Ancona, María Fayne AU - García Cabrero, Benilde AU - Montero Y López Lena, María AU - Valencia Cruz, Alejandra PY - 2013/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Maternal regulation and toddlers’ effortful control JF - International Journal of Psychological Research JA - Int. j. psychol. res. VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - Research Article DO - 10.21500/20112084.698 UR - https://revistas.usb.edu.co/index.php/IJPR/article/view/698 SP - 30-40 AB - Effortful control is a regulatory component of emotion (Calkins &amp; Hill, 2007). This descriptive study analyzed the relation between maternal co-regulation strategies and children self-regulation strategies in order to evaluate their effortful control skills.<br />19 dyads [mother-child] with children between 18 and 36 months old participated and were divided in three groups, the sample was taken from government´s nurseries. A transversal study with direct observation of the experimental situation was executed. Every dyad was recorded twice, the observed strategies were encoded and a high reliability (α=.86) was gotten. No significant statistical differences were found among the groups (X2= 26), but co-relations showed that maternal and child strategies changed in function of the age. Older children used preferably active attention strategies related with a higher effortful control that were linked with maternal strategies promoting autonomy. ER -