Self-Regulation

Megan McClelland; John Geldhof; Fred Morrison; Steinunn Gestsdóttir; Claire Cameron; Ed Bowers; Angela Duckworth; Todd Little; Jennie Grammer

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47143-3_12

Self-Regulation

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In: Handbook of Life Course Health Development [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2018.

2017 Nov 21.

Authors

Megan McClelland¹, John Geldhof², Fred Morrison³, Steinunn Gestsdóttir⁴, Claire Cameron⁵, Ed Bowers⁶, Angela Duckworth⁷, Todd Little⁸, Jennie Grammer⁹

Book Editors

Neal Halfon¹, Christopher B. Forrest², Richard M. Lerner³, Elaine M. Faustman⁴

Affiliations

¹ Human Development and Family Sciences, 245 Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
² Oregon State University, Human Development and Family Sciences, Corvallis, OR, USA
³ Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
⁴ Department of Psychology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
⁵ University at Buffalo, SUNY, Learning and Instruction, Buffalo, NY, USA
⁶ Clemson University, Youth Development Leadership, Clemson, SC, USA
⁷ Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
⁸ Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
⁹ University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Book Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
² Applied Clinical Research Center Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
³ Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
⁴ Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

Excerpt

Self-regulation has been shown to have important implications for individual trajectories of health and well-being across the life course. The present chapter examines the development of self-regulation from a life course health development (LCHD) perspective. Using the seven principles of LCHD and the relational developmental systems (RDS) framework, the chapter focuses on the importance of self-regulation for health and well-being over time and across contexts and examines the pathways of self-regulation including the individual, contextual, and sociocultural factors that influence the development of these skills over time, methods for studying self-regulation, and translational issues. The chapter concludes by providing recommendations for future research and for better integrating the principles of LCHD and RDS within the study of self-regulation.

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