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Psychophysiological Assessment of the Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Childhood
Published on: February 11, 2017
Emotional Competence of Early Childhood Educators and Child Socio-Emotional Wellbeing
Angelica Arace1, Laura Elvira Prino1, Donatella Scarzello1
1Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin, 1024 Turin, Italy.
Background:
Early childhood educators are attachment figures for babies and play an important role in emotion socialization. This study aims to analyze the role of educators as emotional socializers and its relationship with infants' social competence and attachment security, considering various characteristics of educators (age, years of experience, level of knowledge of development and parenting) and the context (day-care center-family communication).
Methods:
563 infants attending day-care centers (age: M = 25.98 months SD = 5.41) and their 223 early childhood educators (age: M = 42.61 SD = 11.02) took part in this study. The educators completed: CEESQ-Crèche Educator Emotional Style Questionnaire, Information Sources Questionnaire, two sub-scales of KIDI-Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory, QRS-F-Questionnaire on the Relationship between Services and Families, QPI-Questionnaire on Peer Interactions, and AQS-Attachment-Q-Sort.
Results:
Results showed that the educator's coaching style has a relationship with attachment security and social skills and is positively correlated with the educators' emotional self-efficacy and with the level of communication between day-care centers and families, while the correlation with knowledge of parenting is weak.
Conclusions:
These findings highlight the importance of enhancing not only educators' knowledge about educative strategies, but above all their emotional competence to promote children adaptation to day-care centers.
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