CHILDREN SELF-REGULATION: A MODEL IN FLASH FLOOD DISASTER RISK AT SITUBONDO EAST JAVA INDONESIA

The article was based on the case study that was conducted in Kabupaten Situbondo, East Java. The purpose of the study was to explore how the children who live in a region with flash flood haza rd develop their adaptation competencies with disaster in harmony before and after disaster occurred. Early children usually are vulnerable in disaster hazard because of their lack of physical, knowledge and understanding on that matter. Living in an area with disaster hazard causes them develop some ways to regulate themselves from disaster consequences. This phenomenon is called self-regulation in which self-awareness and the maturation of socioemotional developed naturally. Using qualitative analysis, the result describes the categories from three children as information subject.Keywords: Disaster hazard, Flash flood, self-awareness, self-regulatio