Structuring is a parental response to young children’s behavior that may foster children’s attempts to use cognitive skills to engage in self-regulation. Using a rural, economically strained sample, parental structuring in response to 127 eighteen-month-olds’ negative emotion was observed during a home visit. Children’s distraction, a useful cognitive strategy when waiting for a reward, was assessed during a laboratory wait task at 18, 24, 36, and 48 months. More frequent parental structuring at child age 18 months predicted more developmental growth in children’s use of distraction between 18 and 48 months, in contrast with parental directives. Consistent with Kopp’s (1989) framework, parental structuring may capitalize on children’s cognitive development to play a unique role in fostering children’s self-regulation of negative emotion.

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应对幼儿消极情绪的父母结构预测儿童以后使用分心作为等待的自我调节策略

结构化是父母对幼儿行为的一种反应，可以促进儿童尝试使用认知技能进行自我调节。使用农村、经济紧张的样本，在一次家访期间观察到父母对 127 名 18 个月大的负面情绪的反应。在 18、24、36 和 48 个月的实验室等待任务期间，儿童的注意力分散是一种在等待奖励时有用的认知策略。与父母的指示相反，在 18 个月大时更频繁的父母结构预测儿童在 18 到 48 个月之间使用分心的发展增长更快。与 Kopp (1989) 的框架一致，父母结构可以利用儿童的认知发展在培养儿童对负面情绪的自我调节方面发挥独特的作用。