The Impact of Participating in Cultural and Sports Events on Preschoolers' Emotional Competence

In recent years, participation in non-disciplinary extracurricular cultural and sports activities has become more and more common among preschool children, while children's emotional competence is the core of preschool children's social interaction and mental health, and whether participation in cultural and sports activities affects children's emotional competence has increasingly attracted the attention of parents and educators. In this study, we employed questionnaires to assess children's emotional competence using the Children's Emotional Regulation Scale (CERS) (Preschool Edition), as well as correlation analysis, regression modeling, and group comparison tests to investigate whether participation in sports and cultural activities impacts children's emotional competence. It was found that there was a positive correlation between participation in sports and cultural activities and emotional competence, but the effect on emotional competence could not explain this. In addition, when comparing the participation group with the non-participation group, it was found that there was no significant difference between the two groups. This suggests that participation in cultural and sports activities has only a weak effect on emotional competence, which may be influenced by factors such as family resources and family socioeconomic status. The study provides a scientific reference for educational practices in the context of urban middle-class families.