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

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 543-553 ◽  
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.

scholarly journals Science Self-Concept – More Than the Sum of its Parts? A Comparison of Different Assessment and Modeling Approaches

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Schroeders ◽  
Malte Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
General Science ◽  
Theoretical Status ◽  
Subject Specific ◽  
Mean Structure ◽  
The Subject

Academic self-concept is understood as a multidimensional, hierarchical construct. Multidimensionality refers to the subject-specific differentiation of academic self-concepts, whereas hierarchy refers to the aggregation of more specific facets of self-concepts into more general ones. Previous research demonstrated that students distinguish between their self-concepts in biology, chemistry, and physics if taught as separate school subjects, as is done in Germany. However, large-scale international educational studies, such as PISA, often use a monolithic science self-concept measure. It is yet unclear whether an aggregate of subject-specific self-concepts is equivalent to a directly measured science self-concept. We assessed the subject-specific and and a general science self-concept of 1,232 German grade 10 students. A higher-order factor model and a bifactor model demonstrated a very high correlation between the “inferred” and the explicitly assessed general science self-concept. Despite the high empirical overlap, we argue for a more nuanced view of the science self-concept, because statistical unity is not to be confused with causal unity. Moreover, from a methodological perspective, we used multi-group confirmatory factor analysis to examine the mean structure and local weighted structural equation models to study measurement invariance across science ability. Implications for the theoretical status of self-concept as a hierarchical construct are discussed.

scholarly journals On a Pathway Towards Thriving: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Tools to Promote Positive Development and Intentional Self Regulation in Youth

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmond P. Bowers ◽  
Christopher M. Napolitano ◽  
Miriam R. Arbeit ◽  
Paul Chase ◽  
Samantha A. Glickman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Validity Evidence ◽  
The Core ◽  
Intentional Self Regulation ◽  
Navigational System

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.

scholarly journals The Only Constant Is Change? Movement Capital and Perceived Employability

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 674-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen R. Peeters ◽  
Jos Akkermans ◽  
Nele De Cuyper
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
The Public ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Perceived Employability ◽  
Two Samples

This study examines to what extent the four aspects of movement capital (i.e., human capital, adaptability, self-awareness, and social capital) contribute to individuals’ perceived employability. Building on the model of career mobility, we expected positive effects of all movement capital aspects on perceived employability over time. Hypotheses were tested by means of longitudinal structural equation models in two samples of Belgian respondents from the private ( N = 409, 6 months between measurements) and the public ( N = 718, 8 months between measurements) sector. We established a reciprocal relationship between self-awareness and perceived employability. The other associations of human capital, adaptability, and social capital were surprisingly small and inconsistent. There appears to be a disconnect between conceptualizations and measurements of employability; whereas conceptualizations of perceived employability focus on obtaining and retaining employment, measurements only tap into the former. At the same time, movement capital conceptualizations focus on obtaining employment, whereas their measurements tap into obtaining and retaining employment.

scholarly journals The role of pubertal timing and temperamental vulnerability in adolescents' internalizing symptoms

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 377-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa J. Crockett ◽  
Gustavo Carlo ◽  
Jennifer M. Wolff ◽  
Meredith O. Hope
Keyword(s):  
Internalizing Symptoms ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Emotional Reactivity ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Pubertal Timing ◽  
Pubertal Development ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Internalizing Behavior ◽  
Adolescent Girls And Boys

AbstractThis longitudinal study examined the joint role of pubertal timing and temperament variables (emotional reactivity and self-regulation) in predicting adolescents' internalizing symptoms. The multiethnic sample included 1,025 adolescent girls and boys followed from age 11 to age 15 (M age = 11.03 years at Time 1). In structural equation models, age 11 measures of pubertal timing, emotional reactivity, and self-regulation and their interactions were used to predict adolescents' internalizing behavior concurrently and at age 15. Results indicated that, among girls, early pubertal timing, higher emotional reactivity, and lower self-regulation predicted increased internalizing behavior. In addition, self-regulation moderated the effect of pubertal timing such that effects of earlier timing on subsequent internalizing were seen primarily among girls with relatively poor self-regulation. Among boys, higher levels of emotional reactivity and lower self-regulation predicted increased internalizing, but there were no effects of pubertal timing. After controlling for Time 1 internalizing symptoms, only self-regulation predicted change in internalizing symptoms. Discussion focuses on the possible interplay of temperament and pubertal development in predicting internalizing problems during adolescence.

Rationalizing Delinquency

2014 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesar J. Rebellon ◽  
Michelle E. Manasse ◽  
Karen T. Van Gundy ◽  
Ellen S. Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Latent Variable ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Behavioral Measures ◽  
Youth Study ◽  
Criminological Theories

Multiple criminological theories predict that attitudes toward delinquency should affect an individual’s delinquent behavior. Criminological research, however, has not sufficiently incorporated social psychological theory predicting the reverse causal relationship, and tends to suffer from important methodological limitations. The present study addresses these issues using longitudinal data from the New Hampshire Youth Study (N = 626). After using latent variable models to demonstrate the discriminant validity of attitudinal and behavioral measures, it uses structural equation models to examine whether attitudes are stronger predictors of behavior or vice versa. Net of controls, results provide qualified support for a reciprocal relationship but suggest that behavior affects attitudes much more than attitudes affect behavior. We conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for future research and for interventions aimed at controlling delinquency.

Effects of early maternal distress and parenting on the development of children's self-regulation and externalizing behavior

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Ewon Choe ◽  
Sheryl L. Olson ◽  
Arnold J. Sameroff
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Externalizing Behavior ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Maternal Distress ◽  
Maternal Warmth ◽  
Inductive Discipline

AbstractEmotional distress experienced by mothers increases young children's risk of externalizing problems through suboptimal parenting and child self-regulation. An integrative structural equation model tested hypotheses that mothers’ parenting (i.e., low levels of inductive discipline and maternal warmth) would mediate adverse effects of early maternal distress on child effortful control, which in turn would mediate effects of maternal parenting on child externalizing behavior. This longitudinal study spanning ages 3, 6, and 10 included 241 children, mothers, and a subset of teachers. The hypothesized model was partially supported. Elevated maternal distress was associated with less inductive discipline and maternal warmth, which in turn were associated with less effortful control at age 3 but not at age 6. Inductive discipline and maternal warmth mediated adverse effects of maternal distress on children's effortful control. Less effortful control at ages 3 and 6 predicted smaller relative decreases in externalizing behavior at 6 and 10, respectively. Effortful control mediated effects of inductive discipline, but not maternal warmth, on externalizing behavior. Findings suggest elevated maternal distress increases children's risk of externalizing problems by compromising early parenting and child self-regulation.

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

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-101 ◽  
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. 

scholarly journals Longitudinal Associations Between Loneliness and Self-Rated Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 588-588
Author(s):  
Simon Brauer ◽  
Toni Antonucci ◽  
Ketlyne Sol
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Network Size ◽  
Time Points ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Bidirectional Association ◽  
Longitudinal Associations

Abstract Cross-lagged structural equation models examined the bidirectional association between loneliness and self rated health over three time points. We adjusted for age, gender, network size, and depressive symptoms at baseline. At baseline, the sample was 28% Black and 40% male. Average age at time 1 was 46 years, 56 years at time 2, and 63 years at time 3. Results indicated that loneliness at time 1 was associated with loneliness at time 2; loneliness at time 2 was associated with loneliness at time 3. We had similar findings for associations among self rated health. However, only one of the cross-lagged paths was significant. Specifically, more loneliness at time 2 was associated with worse self rated health at time 3. These associations did not vary across black and white race. Findings indicate that loneliness at later midlife may be detrimental to later life health, regardless of race.

The Work Program of Individual and Group Correctional Classes for Students 5–9 Classes with Mental Retardation “Stages of Development”

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-55
Author(s):  
A.A. Bekmuhambetova
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Developmental Disorders ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Cognitive Resources ◽  
Structural Components ◽  
The Subject

The program belongs to the category of “psychological correction of behavior and developmental disorders of students” and is aimed at the development of personal self-regulation and prevention of deviant behavior in adolescents with mental retardation (MR). Adolescents with MR are characterized by “loose” connectivity between the structural components of self-regulation, which manifests itself in a weak interdependence and mutual influence on each other of indicators of activity, reflection, value orientations and moral ideas. The weakest in regulation are reflection, the value of responsibility, value-I, self-guidance and moral ideas. Modern studies of domestic and foreign authors show that children with MR have a high risk of behavioral disorders, which becomes most obvious in adolescence and necessitates targeted correctional work with children of this category. Results of research in 2009 made by T.N. Matantseva showed that adolescents with MR have the potential for personal development and the formation of personal self-regulation, subject to the appropriate organization of correctional and developmental work. Personal self-regulation acts as a functional means of the subject, allowing mobilizing personal and cognitive resources for the implementation of activity and achievement of meaningful goals.

scholarly journals Beyond difficulties in self-regulation: the role of identity integration and personality functioning in young women with disordered eating behaviours

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Biberdzic ◽  
Josephine Tang ◽  
Junhao Tan
Keyword(s):  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Eating Behaviours ◽  
Identity Integration ◽  
Personality Functioning

Abstract Background Past research has established individual relationships between disordered eating behaviours (DEB) and both self-regulation difficulties and identity disturbance. However, no research has looked at the shared influence of these constructs on DEB nor at personality functioning in individuals with DEB. Methods In the present study, self-regulation was explored in terms of effortful control, impulsivity and emotion regulation while identity integration was measured in terms of impairments in self-functioning using a sample of 247 undergraduate students. Results Significant associations were found between all components of self-regulation and DEB, with the exception of impulsivity. Identity instability was also associated with self-regulation difficulties and DEB. Structural Equation Modelling analyses indicated that identity instability partially mediated the relationship between self-regulation and DEB. Lastly, disordered eating was associated with difficulties in personality functioning, with young women presenting with DEB reporting significantly greater difficulties in both self and interpersonal personality functioning. Conclusion Behavioural eating anomalies should be considered as epiphenomena secondary to a possible deeper issue that reflects difficulties related to identity integration and potential personality functioning. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed.

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