Anger emotional regulation and gender differences in preschoolers
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This study explored the emotion regulation processes and gender differences between girls and boys of preschooler’s age from Bogotá. 48 children between 54 and 60 months old participated in this study, which generated self regulation and social regulation responses associated to the increase of anger of a character. The multivariate analysis showed four types of regulatory behavior that allows a description of regulatory characteristics in preschooler age. There was not find evidence of correlation with gender, gender didn’t establish a behavior’s type. The results are discuss and contrast with the surveys of Koop (1989), Eisenberg, Fabes, Bernzweig, Karbon, Poulin, and Hanish (1993), Brody and Hall (1993) and McCoy and Masters (1985).
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