Abstract
Self-control emerges in early childhood and is shown to be strongly related to poor adulthood outcomes. The development of self-control was long believed to be homogeneous among individuals and sta...
Highlights
Self-control refers to an individual’s ability to control his/her current desires to achieve more valued long-term goals
The purpose of the current study was to (1) examine if multiple growth trajectories of self-control existed in early childhood by using growth mixture modeling approach, (2) investigate if growth trajectories of self-control were the function of child, family, and school characteristics
Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal StudyKindergarten Cohort of 2011 (ECLS-K:2011), we found (1) three distinct growth trajectories of self-control existed in the ECLS-K sample, namely, the high, medium, and low level of self-control; (2) self-control levels in all groups were relatively stable during early childhood; (3) teacher expectation and teacher-student relationship significantly predicted growth trajectories of self-control above and beyond certain child and family characteristics
Summary
Self-control refers to an individual’s ability to control his/her current desires to achieve more valued long-term goals. It entails regulating one’s actions, thoughts, and emotions to work. Qianqian Pan recently received her Ph.D. from the Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics program at the University of Kansas. She has been trained in the psychometrics and quantitative methodology with research interests in academic achievement assessments and growth modeling. Qingqing Zhu is a school psychology doctoral candidate at the University of Kansas She has been trained in the cognitive, behavioral, and social emotional assessment and intervention for school age children. The current study is within a larger scope of applying novel quantitative methodology in studying the social emotional development of school age children
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