Beyond the "self" in self-regulation: Family interaction modulates situational self-control by adolescent drug users.

ABSTRACT: Prevailing views of adolescent self-regulation (ASR) as a relatively stable disposition or skill that an individual possesses in various degrees stand in contrast to a complementary, situational perspective from family systems theory casting ASR as intertwined with ongoing family processes and malleable depending on interpersonal interactions. Using observational data from a large, ethnically diverse sample of substance-using adolescents (N = 458), the current study examines the social context of ASR across 3 increasingly conflictual family interaction tasks. Coders rated ASR and 3 concurrent family interaction patterns: enmeshment, conflict avoidance, and negative affect. ASR declined across the 3 tasks, and independent of this systematic change, family-level negative affect in the

SUBMITTER: Sur B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7102925 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature