"Same but different": Associations between multiple aspects of self-regulation, cognition, and academic abilities.

ABSTRACT: Self-regulation describes the ability to control both behaviors and internal states against a backdrop of conflicting or distracting situations, drives, or impulses. In the cognitive psychology tradition, individual differences in self-regulation are commonly measured with performance-based tests of executive functioning, whereas in the personality psychology tradition, individual differences in self-regulation are typically assessed with report-based measures of impulse control, sustained motivation, and perseverance. The goal of this project was (a) to comprehensively examine the structure of associations between multiple self-regulatory constructs stemming from the cognitive and personality psychology traditions; (b) to estimate how these constructs, individually and collectively, relat

SUBMITTER: Malanchini M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6565522 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature