The Relationship Between Emotion Regulation and Social Competence in School-Aged Children

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Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between children’s emotion regulation and social competence in primary school period. Seventy-four primary school children between the ages of 8 and 10 participated in the current study. A battery of questionnaires was administered to the teachers and students. Children’s social competence (including social functioning, socially appropriate behavior and peer acceptance) was measured using School Social Behavior Scale (SSBS), Matson Evaluation of Social Skills With Youngsters (MESSY), peers’ reports of children’s sociometric status. To assess emotion regulation, The Emotion Regulation Index for Children and Adolescents (ERICA) was used. As expected, the study has found out that children’s emotion regulation was related to children’s social competence.

Author

• Sibel Zeynep Taskin, bahcesehir college