TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward a Unifying Model of Self-regulation
T2 - A Developmental Approach
AU - Cole, Pamela M.
AU - Ram, Nilam
AU - English, Mary Samantha
N1 - Funding Information:
The work reported in this article was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under award number R01HD076994. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official view of the National Institutes of Health.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Society for Research in Child Development
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - The ability to self-regulate is key to healthy, competent functioning. The breadth of evidence supporting the importance of self-regulation is matched by such a diversity of terms, concepts, measures, and levels of analysis that the National Institutes of Health called for progress toward a unifying model. In this article, we review a lineage of conceptual models and suggest a path toward a more unifying model of self-regulation that encompasses both the dynamics of moment-to-moment changes and age-related change. Drawing from these models, we define self-regulation as the influence of the recruitment of executive processes (EP) on prepotent responses (PR). We define these terms, locating self-regulation in the dynamic relations between PR and EP, and offer a theoretical–mathematical approach to testing this model.
AB - The ability to self-regulate is key to healthy, competent functioning. The breadth of evidence supporting the importance of self-regulation is matched by such a diversity of terms, concepts, measures, and levels of analysis that the National Institutes of Health called for progress toward a unifying model. In this article, we review a lineage of conceptual models and suggest a path toward a more unifying model of self-regulation that encompasses both the dynamics of moment-to-moment changes and age-related change. Drawing from these models, we define self-regulation as the influence of the recruitment of executive processes (EP) on prepotent responses (PR). We define these terms, locating self-regulation in the dynamic relations between PR and EP, and offer a theoretical–mathematical approach to testing this model.
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U2 - 10.1111/cdep.12316
DO - 10.1111/cdep.12316
M3 - Article
C2 - 31543929
AN - SCOPUS:85058701993
SN - 1750-8592
VL - 13
SP - 91
EP - 96
JO - Child Development Perspectives
JF - Child Development Perspectives
IS - 2
ER -