Comparison of Self-regulation in Children and Adolescents in Children's Home and Protective Educational Facility

AbstractWe focus on the process of self-regulation in children and adolescents living in institutional care. Based on a content analysis of transcripts of two focus groups carried out in a children's home and a protective educational facility, we attempted to detect, describe and explain the mechanisms of self-regulation in children and adolescents aged 11-18 years. The purpose of the study was to reveal how the participants describe their performance in four components of self-regulation processes, i.e., in setting personal goals, in self-regulation of behaviour, in self-regulation of conflicts and in self-regulation of learning. Within the aforementioned content analysis we compared the previous areas in two types of institutional facilities for provision of institutional and protective care