24.06.2025
Stuttgarter Zeitung: Self-regulation in children
Article with Janina Eberhart, developmental psychologist at the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology.
Children who have good self-regulation competencies are better at school. In 2024, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina demanded in a statement that german pre-schools and schools must invest more in promoting the learning of self-regulation.
"Self-regulation develops from early childhood to late adolescence in environmental interaction. For some children, this ability needs to be specifically practised," says Janina Eberhart, developmental psychologist at the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology at the University of Tübingen and member of the LEAD Graduate School & Research Network, to the Stuttgarter Zeitung. Younger children, in particular, need external regulation. “At kindergarten and primary school age, they can then take on more and more themselves,” says Janina Eberhart.
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