Regulatory Focus and Stereotype Threat: The Interplay of Self-Regulation Mechanisms and Negative Stereotypic Expectations in Real Life Performance Settings

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Keller
Keyword(s):  
Stereotype Threat ◽  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Regulation Mechanisms

When Negative Stereotypic Expectancies Turn Into Challenge or Threat: The Moderating Role of Regulatory Focus

2007 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Keller
Keyword(s):  
Stereotype Threat ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Expectancy Effects ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Verbal Tasks ◽  
The Impact

The impact of negative stereotypic expectations on men’s verbal performance was investigated in an experimental study. The study was designed to test a theoretical perspective that relates self-regulatory processes as postulated in Regulatory Focus Theory (Higgins, 1998) to stereotypic expectancy effects on test performance as previously documented in research on stereotype threat. It is argued that negative stereotypic expectancies (e.g., “Men are bad at verbal tasks”) are more likely to result in a threat experience and poorer test performance when a prevention focus and in turn a special sensitivity to potential negative outcomes is activated whereas negative stereotypic expectancies are more likely to result in a challenge experience and better test performance when a promotion focus has been induced. The results indicate that expectancy effects on test performance are indeed moderated by the mode of self-regulation activated in the testing situation.

Cocaine users and self-regulation mechanisms

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 194-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grazia Zuffa ◽  
Patrizia Meringolo ◽  
Fausto Petrini
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Regulation Mechanisms ◽  
Cocaine Users

Using metavisualization to revise an explanatory model regarding a chemical reaction between ions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solange Wagner Locatelli ◽  
Bette Davidowitz
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Chemical Reaction ◽  
Chemistry Education ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Explanatory Model ◽  
Future Application ◽  
Correct Figure ◽  
Real Life Situation

The objective of this work was to evaluate the implementation of a metavisual strategy for students to revise and self-regulate concepts arising in a study of a chemical reaction between ions. For this purpose, two chemistry education undergraduate students at a Brazilian public university carried out an investigative activity, involving metavisual steps, to revise explanatory models at the submicro level. Students were given a problem, namely a reaction between ions drawn from a real-life situation and were provided with clay to construct an explanatory model of the submicro level for the initial and final stages of the reaction. The students were asked to compare their clay model with an example of a scientifically correct figure of the submicro level of the reaction generated by the researchers. At this stage students were given the option to reconstruct their model. Data were captured via photographs of the clay models and students’ verbal discussions as they proceeded through the activity. The findings reveal evidence of self-regulation of mental models at the submicro level, from the interaction of prior knowledge, chemical diagrams and discussions and reflections by the pair of students. Difficulties regarding chemical formulae were also observed in relation to the symbolic level. Finally, there are implications for teaching chemistry, since teachers in training need to experience metavisual strategies for future application in their classrooms.

scholarly journals What’s so great about self-control? Examining the importance of effortful self-control and temptation in predicting real-life depletion and goal attainment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Milyavskaya ◽  
Michael Inzlicht
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Goal Attainment ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Daily Diary ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Personal Goal ◽  
Prospective Data ◽  
Bayesian Analyses

Self-control is typically viewed as a key ingredient responsible for effective self-regulation and personal goal attainment. This study used experience sampling, daily diary and prospective data collection to investigate the immediate and semester-long consequences of effortful self-control and temptations on depletion and goal-attainment. Results showed that goal attainment was influenced by experiences of temptations rather than by actively resisting or controlling those temptations. This study also found that simply experiencing temptations led people to feel depleted. Depletion in turn mediated the link between temptations and goal attainment, such that people who experienced increased temptations felt more depleted and thus less likely to achieve their goals. Critically, results of Bayesian analyses strongly indicate that effortful self-control was consistently unrelated to goal attainment throughout all analyses.

scholarly journals Multiple Means of Engagement Strategies for Maximising the Learning of Mathematics in Pandemic-regulated Classrooms

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 68-90
Author(s):  
Matshidiso M Moleko
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Universal Design For Learning ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Disadvantaged Area ◽  
Engagement Strategies ◽  
Design For Learning ◽  
Varying Demand

Many learners find mathematics learning challenging. In response to that actuality, this paper highlights mathematics teachers’ experiences of, and insights into how they adopted and implemented the principle of “Multiple Means of Engagement” (MME) to maximise learning in pandemic-regulated classrooms (in the context of the study, characterised by alternative weeks of attendance, social distancing and wearing of masks). The MME principle is one of the three universal design for learning (UDL) key principles, which guides on how diverse groups of learners can be effectively catered for. The empirical processes, premised on a phenomenological case study, commenced with focus group discussions with 8 high school mathematics teachers from a previously disadvantaged area, who have prior-training in MME. A free attitude interview (FAI) technique was used, to afford the teachers the opportunity to share their insights into the application of MME in their pandemic-regulated classrooms. The content analysis of the teachers’ reflections revealed the following aspects: clear instructions, step-by-step guides, checklists to enhance self-regulation, varying demand and resources to meet challenges, fostering collaboration, providing corrective feedback to sustain effort and persistence, addressing mathematical vocabulary and using real-life situations to recruit interest. These strategies were found not only essential in maximising learning in mathematics under normal circumstances, but also indispensable during the prevailing conditions of the pandemic. The findings therefore suggest MME as a suitable mathematical approach during this Covid19 period.

The self-regulation of prejudice: Toward understanding its lived character

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margo J. Monteith ◽  
Aimee Y. Mark ◽  
Leslie Ashburn-Nardo
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
The Self ◽  
Laboratory Studies ◽  
Internal Motivation ◽  
Racial Experiences ◽  
The Future ◽  
External Motivation

Survey and laboratory studies provide support for the self-regulation of prejudice, but it is unclear whether people similarly self-regulate in“real life. Using a phenomenological approach, 153 non-Black participants recalled racial experiences in which they responded in ways they later wished had been different. Participants internally motivated to control prejudice reported discrepancies regardless of their external motivation, but even participants low on internal motivation reported prejudice-related discrepancies if they were externally motivated. Content analysis results are presented to summarize participants discrepancy experiences. Also, most participants discrepancies produced negative self-directed affect and the self-regulation of prejudice in the future. Findings suggest that self-regulation generalizes beyond the laboratory and occurs even among people who are not internally motivated to control their prejudice.

Self Regulation on Innovative Products Choice

2012 ◽  
pp. 508-525
Author(s):  
Paulo Henrique Muller Prado ◽  
Danielle Mantovani Lucena da Silva ◽  
Jose Carlos Korelo
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Product Category ◽  
Anticipated Regret ◽  
Choice Process ◽  
Innovative Cluster ◽  
Choice Goals ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Choice Regret

This chapter explores how choice goals influence consumers’ innovativeness in a product category domain. The intentions to adopt new products are guided by promotion and prevention self-regulation systems. Thus, two of the choice goals were classified as promotion goals—justifiability and choice confidence—and two were classified as prevention goals – anticipated regret and evaluation costs. Two groups emerged from the analysis: one named “most innovative” and another called “less innovative.” When comparing the groups, the results show that the “most innovative” cluster demonstrated higher choice confidence, higher justifiability and was more capable of avoiding a possible choice regret. The differences found in the group analysis highlight the need of understanding in further detail how consumers behave during the choice process of innovative products. Therefore, the Regulatory Focus Theory has been shown to be very important for understanding the choice process, especially for the innovation adoption.

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