The effect of picture book reading on young children's use of an emotion regulation strategy.

ABSTRACT: Picture book reading is an enjoyable everyday activity for many young children with well-known benefits for language development. The present study investigated whether picture book reading can support young children's social-emotional development by providing a learning opportunity for the usage of emotion regulation strategies. Three-year-old children participated in two waiting situations designed to elicit negative affect. Between these waiting situations they read a picture book. In two experimental conditions, the book depicted how a protagonist (same-aged peer or young adult, respectively) waited for a desired object and distracted herself with toys while waiting. Children in an additional control condition read a picture book that was unrelated to waiting. Use of distraction did no

SUBMITTER: Schoppmann J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10395841 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature