@article{Esquivel Y Ancona_García Cabrero_Montero Y López Lena_Valencia Cruz_2013, title={Maternal regulation and toddlers’ effortful control}, volume={6}, url={https://revistas.usb.edu.co/index.php/IJPR/article/view/698}, DOI={10.21500/20112084.698}, abstractNote={Effortful control is a regulatory component of emotion (Calkins & Hill, 2007). This descriptive study analyzed the relation between maternal co-regulation strategies and children self-regulation strategies in order to evaluate their effortful control skills.<br />19 dyads [mother-child] with children between 18 and 36 months old participated and were divided in three groups, the sample was taken from government´s nurseries. A transversal study with direct observation of the experimental situation was executed. Every dyad was recorded twice, the observed strategies were encoded and a high reliability (α=.86) was gotten. No significant statistical differences were found among the groups (X2= 26), but co-relations showed that maternal and child strategies changed in function of the age. Older children used preferably active attention strategies related with a higher effortful control that were linked with maternal strategies promoting autonomy.}, number={1}, journal={International Journal of Psychological Research}, author={Esquivel Y Ancona, María Fayne and García Cabrero, Benilde and Montero Y López Lena, María and Valencia Cruz, Alejandra}, year={2013}, month={Jun.}, pages={30–40} }