Occupational Behaviour And Its Relationship To Emotional Regulation In Elementary School Students Comportamiento Ocupacional y su Relación con la Regulación Emocional en Estudiantes de Educación Básica

Abstract

The aim of this pedagogical research action was to determine the possible relationship between emotional regulation and occupational behaviour in a group of school children in a public educational institution in the city of San José de Cúcuta. The positivist paradigm was adopted with a quantitative approach at a descriptive correlational level following a field design, for which the Occupational Self-Assessment for children and the test based on the Emotional Intelligence of the human occupation model were used as instruments for data collection. The results allow us to identify that approximately one out of every two participating students presents incompetence in occupational behaviour, which prevents them from achieving motivation for doing, stabilising daily activities, and carrying out occupations. It is concluded that the two concepts are related since the lack of self-control, self-awareness, self-knowledge, motivation, among many others, limits the assertive decision making, the way of doing things and therefore the way of acting