Emotion regulation and emotion socialization of early childhood educators

2022-5
Üzüm, Sabiha
The purpose of the study was to underline the early childhood educators’ emotion regulation and socialization of young children’s negative emotions. With this aim, the strategies of early childhood educators’ emotion regulation and socialization of young children’s negative emotions in emotionally difficult times and the relationship between the early childhood educators’ emotion regulation and socialization of young children’s negative emotions was investigated. For the current thesis a correlational study was designed. The data of the study were collected from 394 early childhood educators working in Ankara, Eskişehir, and Konya, the cities selected as a part of Yukarı Sakarya and Konya Districts of the Central Anatolia Region. The data was collected via three different data collection instruments: Demographic Information Form, Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, and The Coping with Children’s Negative Emotions Scale – Teacher Form. The Coping with Children’s Negative Emotions Scale – Teacher Form was translated, adapted and validated within the scope of the current study. To address the aim of the study, an initial model was defined through a literature review, and then a final model was built through a path analysis. In this way, the relationships between variables were detected and presented within the scope of the findings. The study revealed correlations between early childhood educators’ emotion regulation and socialization of young children’s negative emotions. In this context, the extent to which early childhood educators’ socialization of young children’s negative emotions with supportive or non-supportive reactions by regulating their emotions through cognitive reappraisal or suppression is explained.

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Citation Formats
S. Üzüm, “Emotion regulation and emotion socialization of early childhood educators,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.