Positive Development in Adolescence: The Development and Role of Intentional Self-Regulation

This article provides initial data about the reliability and validity of tools aimed at promoting youth intentional self regulation (ISR) within mentoring programs. Based on the translation of the theory-based research about ISR and youth thriving conducted within the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD), the GPS to Success tools use the metaphor of a car’s GPS navigational system to enhance goal-directed behaviors among youth. The core GPS tools are “growth grids,” designed to help mentors appraise ISR skill development and to link these skills to other grids assessing the Five Cs of PYD and Contribution. Data from 152 mentor and youth pairs from 4-H program sites in Oregon and North Carolina indicated that the growth grids were generally reliable. Although validity evidence was mixed, rubrics for “G” and “P” and for a global GPS score were related to a well-validated measure of ISR.

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Intentional Self Regulation and Positive Youth Development: Implications for Youth Development Programs

Journal of Youth Development ◽

10.5195/jyd.2015.10 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 89-101 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Lisa M. Chauveron ◽

Miriam R. Linver ◽

Jennifer Brown Urban

Keyword(s):

Character Education ◽

Youth Development ◽

Positive Youth Development ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Positive Development ◽

Development Programs ◽

Youth Development Programs ◽

Intentional Self Regulation ◽

Five Cs ◽

The Relationship

Character education programs are mission-aligned with the positive youth development (PYD) perspective, which, in research with American youth suggests that intentional self-regulation (ISR) develops through mutually beneficial interactions between youth and their environment. Cross-cultural studies of Western youth suggest an adolescence-specific ISR process may exist. We begin to extend this work to assess the relationship between ISR and positive development in young Scottish adolescents (approximately 7th grade, N = 82; 50% male), a previously unexamined group. ISR was correlated with the Five Cs of PYD and OLS regression analyses demonstrated that ISR predicted two of the Five Cs: Character and Connection. We discuss implications for youth development programs of the findings that ISR and some indices of PYD were linked in a sample of Scottish youth.

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Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Intention: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurship Intentional Self-Regulation among Undergraduate Students

Journal of Economics Business and Accountancy Ventura ◽

10.14414/jebav.v23i2.2239 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Cynthia Elitha ◽

Debora Eflina Purba

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Strong Relationship ◽

Entrepreneurial Intention ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Intentional Self Regulation ◽

The Relationship

Prior studies have explored the correlation between students’ Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Intention, where several studies found a strong relationship between them, while others suggested moderate even weak correlation on it. This research aims to explore the mediating effect of Entrepreneurship Intentional Self-Regulation (EISR) on the relationship between Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy (ESE) and Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) among undergraduate students in Indonesia. There is a need to explain this concept considering that the emergence of entrepreneurs is one of the government’s priorities in Indonesia. Data were collected from 299 undergraduate students on their final year of studies from eight universities which provide entrepreneurship education in Jakarta and Bandung. Hayes’s PROCESS Macro in SPSS was used to analyse the effect and showed that Entrepreneurship Intentional Self-Regulation (EISR) was fully mediated the relationship between Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Intention among undergraduate students in Indonesia.

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Developmental trajectories of intentional self regulation in adolescence: The role of parenting and implications for positive and problematic outcomes among diverse youth

Journal of Adolescence ◽

10.1016/j.adolescence.2011.07.006 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 34 (6) ◽

pp. 1193-1206 ◽

Cited By ~ 54

Author(s):

Edmond P. Bowers ◽

Steinunn Gestsdottir ◽

G. John Geldhof ◽

Jana Nikitin ◽

Alexander von Eye ◽

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Keyword(s):

Developmental Trajectories ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Intentional Self Regulation ◽

Diverse Youth

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Bidirectional association between effortful control and intentional self-regulation and their integrative effect on deviant adolescent behaviors

International Journal of Behavioral Development ◽

10.1177/0165025417749754 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 42 (6) ◽

pp. 543-553 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yih-Lan Liu ◽

Hui-Tzu Chang

Keyword(s):

Structural Equation ◽

Effortful Control ◽

Structural Equation Models ◽

Deviant Behavior ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Reciprocal Relationship ◽

Positive Development ◽

Bidirectional Association ◽

Intentional Self Regulation ◽

The Subject

Effortful control and intentional self-regulation are two constructs associated with children’s and adolescent self-regulation that have historically been the subject of research in separate fields, where temperament research has primarily focused on effortful control, and positive development research has focused on intentional self-regulation. This study examines the reciprocal relationship between effortful control and intentional self-regulation and discusses how they relate to deviant adolescent behaviors. A total of 599 adolescents from western Taiwan participated in this study, and four waves of data were collected in 2 years. Cross-lagged structural equation models were tested. The results indicate that effortful control has a predominant influence on intentional self-regulation; also, effortful control negatively predicts deviant behavior for boys, whereas intentional self-regulation displays a similar effect for girls.

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