THE RESEARCH OF THE RELATION BETWEEN EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS AND EMOTION REGULATION SKILLS OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN
OKUL ÖNCESİ ÇOCUKLARIN YÜRÜTÜCÜ İŞLEVLERİ VE DUYGU DÜZENLEME BECERİLERİ ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİNİN İNCELENMESİ

Author : Gülhan ŞAHİN -Ramazan ARI
Number of pages : 1-9

Abstract

İt was examined whether the relationship between executive functions (abstraction skills and cognitive flexibility) and emotion regulation skills of 6 years old children in this research. Working group of the research consists of 137 students (70 girls and 67 boys). "Flexible Item Selection Task" to measure executive functions and "Preschool Self-Regulation Scale" to measure emotion regulation skills have been used in the research. Pearson Momentler correlation coefficient has been calculated for the data which have normal distribution in the process of data analysis. Spearman Brown correlation coefficient. have been calculated for the data which do not have normal distribution. There is no relation between abstraction skills and emotion regulation skills on meaningful level while there is a positively meaningful relation between cognitive flexibility and emotion regulation skills.

Keywords

Key words: Emotion regulation skills, executive functions, abstraction skills, cognitive filexibilit

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