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ANNUAL REVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGY, VOL 72
Volume 72, Issue -, Pages 319-345Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-061020-105721
Keywords
self-regulation; self-control; goals; cognitive control; personality; cognitive ability
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [RGPIN-2019-05280]
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [435-2019-0144]
- Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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The article aims to integrate various models of self-regulation from different fields to refine the vast literature on the topic. By focusing on four key elements - level of analysis, conflict, emotion, and cognitive functioning - the authors identify points of convergence and areas of insufficient emphasis, providing suggestions for future research.
Self-regulation is a core aspect of human functioning that helps facilitate the successful pursuit of personal goals. There has been a proliferation of theories and models describing different aspects of self-regulation both within and outside of psychology. All of these models provide insights about self-regulation, but sometimes they talk past each other, make only shallow contributions, or make contributions that are underappreciated by scholars working in adjacent areas. The purpose of this article is to integrate across the many different models in order to refine the vast literature on self-regulation. To achieve this objective, we first review some of the more prominent models of self-regulation coming from social psychology, personality psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. We then integrate across these models based on four key elements-level of analysis, conflict, emotion, and cognitive functioning-specifically identifying points of convergence but also points of insufficient emphasis. We close with prescriptions for future research.
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