摘要:In this paper, I reflect on the information that compliance and noncompliance behaviors provide about self-regulation development. I argue that these behaviors present differences in self-regulation, depending on the level of independence of the children, their motivation, and the emotional activation they express when disobeying. Based on this, I make suggestions on methodologies to capture each of these factors and to have a more complete and accurate approach to study self-regulation in children. I propose to differentiate several types of compliance and noncompliance, record children’s behavior and type of parental control simultaneously, and analyze the children’s behavior in response to legitimate and illegitimate demands.