Abstract
Previous research has shown that children develop self-regulative behaviors through infancy. The purpose of this fieldwork was to show different types of self-regulation among children participating in gymnastics class activities. Three children at an international school and five children at a Japanese school (ages 6-9 years) were observed 23 times between July 2006 and March 2007. The foreign-born international schoolchildren displayed more varieties of self-assertion than did the Japanese schoolchildren, and also exhibited strategies in the form of self-assertive behavior categories. On the other hand, nativeborn Japanese pupils used self-regulative behaviors in a wider variety of situations than did international school pupils. The Japanese children exhibited self-assertive and self-inhibitive behaviors that were recognizable as both self-assertion and self-inhibition.
