Objective: The present study investigated whether children with and without migration background differed in their assessment of the effectiveness of presented behavioral and mental strategies, and in the generation of effective behavioral and mental emotion-regulation strategies (knowledge of emotion regulation strategies). Method: A sample of N = 210 children (age 36-72 months) with and without migration background was compared in their knowledge of emotion-regulation strategies. Results: Results show that the age has the greatest influence on the knowledge of emotion-regulation strategies in preschoolers. After statistical controlling for language skills, we show that immigrant background explained a significant part of the variance of effective presented by behavioral strategies. The effect of migration background on other strategies, however, is not significant. Conclusions: These findings suggest that other factors besides migration background plays a role in the development of parts of knowledge of emotion-regulation strategies. © 2014 Verlag Hans Huber, Hogrefe AG, Bern.

Preschool children Emotion-regulation strategies Language skills Immigrant background

Germany psychological aspect human Internal-External Control control Emotional Intelligence Humans migrant male Emigrants and Immigrants Acculturation preschool child female Child, Preschool Vorschulkinder Emotionsregulationsstrategien cultural factor emotion-regulation strategies immigrant background preschool children language skills Migrationshintergrund Article Sprachentwicklungsstand age Age Factors Multilingualism