ABSTRACT

Poverty is associated with many types of life adversities and child developmental problems. Among various physical and mental developmental outcomes that could be affected by poverty, self-regulation abilities are of critical importance for leading a successful life. In this article, we provide discussions regarding the different developmental pathways of self-regulation in poverty, embedded within various cultural settings. We discuss examples of higher self-regulation performance in children grown up in poor environments and argue that self-regulation assessment should be more focused on real-world conditions, especially taking the saliency of the goals and the cultural context of the situation into account. This article aims to put forward the idea that poor environments, in terms of Western lifestyle standards, may provide cultivating settings in which the child can build-up self-regulation by actually getting involved in real-life situations while not being exposed to various dangers and stressors often associated with poverty.

摘要

贫困与许多类型的生活逆境和儿童发育问题有关。在可能受到贫困影响的各种身心发展成果中，自我调节能力对于过上成功的生活至关重要。在本文中，我们讨论了嵌入在不同文化环境中的贫困自我调节的不同发展途径。我们讨论了在恶劣环境中长大的儿童自我调节表现更高的例子，并认为自我调节评估应该更加关注现实世界的条件，特别是考虑目标的显着性和情况的文化背景。这篇文章的目的是提出这样一种观点，即在西方生活方式标准方面，恶劣的环境，