The Effects Of Self Regulation On Children s Behavior

Social influences start effecting people’s behavior as soon as they are born. From the way one is raised to the way he or she is talked too can impact one greatly. Specifically, between the time a person is first born to the age of five, social influences can sculpt behavior powerfully. For example, when another person is in distress, toddlers start to show prosocial behavior that is supposed to cure that person’s negative affective state (Kà ¤rtner, Keller, Chaudhary, 2010). Self-regulation is one of the most important things that a person can develop. This idea is the basis behind being able to do things by yourself. As a child, it can start with being able to put your shoes on by yourself which then, by the time one reaches adulthood,†¦show more content†¦On the opposite end of things, high levels of positive affect during infancy were associated with high effortful control in toddlers. However, this relation was inversed from toddlerhood to preschool with high positive affectivity between 18 and 36 months seeing low effortful control. Different patterns of associations can lead to different outcomes in self-regulation depending on the gender of child and the status of the rater (mother vs. father). Studies show that from the age of 3 months to 13 years girls had higher effortful conrtrol, lower surgency and higher negative affectivity than boys. There was another study regarding gender differences from infancy to middle childhood that confirmed the first study mentioned above. It showed that females are more fearful, have lower motor activity and show better self-regulation than boys. In addition, parents tend to differently evaluate boys’ and girls dimensions of temperaments. Boys are rated as higher in activity level, while girls are evaluated as higher in shyness and inhibitory control (Kiss, Fechete, Pop and Susa, 2014). Influences from early childhood have such a huge impact on the way one acts when they are older, even if one doesn’t remember the instance that shaped his or her development. This includes the delinquency levels for children. A study that was conducted tested the development of girls delinquency, the