El rol predictor de la regulación emocional, la empatía y la alexitimia en el control intencional de niños y niñas de educación inicial

• Autor: Lira Luttges, Benjamin
• Formato: tesis de grado
• Fecha de Publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad de Lima
• Repositorio: ULIMA-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.ulima.edu.pe:20.500.12724/3295
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12724/3295; http://doi.org/10.26439/ulima.tesis/3295
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Temperament; Empathy; Emotions; Niños preescolares; Preschool Children; Temperamento; Empatía; Emociones; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.01.00

Recent studies have shown that secure attachment and the emotional climate of the place where infants develop can be predictive of their temperament. The present study evaluated the predictive role of parental empathy, emotional regulation and alexithymia in effortful control of 326 children. Results show that personal distress in mothers predicts inhibitory control and that fathers’ empathic concern predicts perceptual sensibility, however, effects are mild. Supplemental analyses are also reported, such as the relation between age and effortful control (the expected correlation is not replicated) and sex differences (in favor of girls); as well as psychometric evaluation of the tests used. Results suggest that certain parental emotional adjustment characteristics can have a role, although mild, in the development of effortful control. This is consistent with the fact that most effects in the literature are not direct. Limitations of the study and recommendations for future research are presented.