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Whats the importance of self regulation on the short term?

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Those with high self regulation are characterized by better (mental) health and educational outcomes

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Whats the importance of self regulation on the long term?

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Those with high SR in childhood are characterized by better (mental) health and educational outcomes in adolescence and adulthood

3
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What are posivite effects of HIGH self regulation?

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  • Social competency
  • School engagement
  • Academic performance
  • Academic achievement
  • Employment
4
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What are negative effects of LOW self regulation?

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Peer victimization

  • Externalizing problems
  • Internalizing problems
  • Obesity
  • Cigarette smoking
  • Alcohol and substance abuse
  • Physical illness
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What is self regulation?

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The ability to
flexibly activate, monitor, inhibit, persevere and/or adapt one’s
behavior, attention, emotions and cognitive strategies
in response to direction from internal cues, environmental stimuli and feedback from others,
in an attempt to attain personally-relevant goals.

AKA
flexibilty, monitoring, inhibiting, persevering and adapting of behavior. cognition and emotions. in response to internal and external cues to attain personally-relevant goals

6
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What can you say about SR and EF?

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SR skills requires prefrontal cortex AKA EF

Simple idea: improve with age, so capacities improve with age

7
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Whats important to know about goals?

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What is the goal? So you can know if actions are goal-directed or not

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Whats the extended framework on self regulation?

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Motivation as a moderator
- Which is influenced by the environment
- By drawing attention to goals
& enhancing motivation to attain these goals.

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What is the main message of the Michaelson (2020) paper?

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  • Marshmallow test predicts a variety of behaviors later in life
  • This effect is mainly explained by supportive environment
  • So environment should be a targeted in interventions
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What are the implications of the findings, for theory and practice?

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  • Marshmellow test can be used to explain later life outcomes
  • Supportive environment is important, interventions should focus on that