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  • Child Development
  • Educational Psychology
  • Early Childhood Education

Background:

  • The prekindergarten period is crucial for developing self-regulation skills.
  • Teacher-child relationship quality is a significant factor in early childhood development.
  • Understanding how relationship dynamics influence self-regulation is vital for educational practices.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between teacher-child relationship quality and children's self-regulation performance.
  • To examine the predictive role of teacher-child conflict, closeness, and dependency on self-regulation tasks.
  • To explore the relationship between temperamental self-regulation and performance on a visual attention task.

Main Methods:

  • 104 prekindergarten children participated.
  • Teachers rated relationship quality (conflict, closeness, dependency) in fall.
  • Children's self-regulation was measured via a visual attention task in spring.
  • Teachers and parents rated children's temperamental self-regulation (effortful control).

Main Results:

  • Increased teacher-child dependency positively predicted longer duration on the visual attention task.
  • Greater teacher-child closeness negatively predicted accuracy on the visual attention task.
  • Parent-rated self-regulation correlated positively with accuracy on the visual attention task.

Conclusions:

  • Teacher-child relationship dynamics, specifically dependency and closeness, are linked to children's performance on self-regulation tasks.
  • Temperamental self-regulation, as perceived by parents, is associated with objective measures of self-regulation.
  • Findings highlight the importance of supportive teacher-child relationships for fostering self-regulation in prekindergarten.