scholarly journals The Affective Self-regulation of Covert and Overt Reasoning in a Promotion vs. Prevention Mind-set

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Kolańczyk ◽  
Marta Roczniewska
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
Wason Selection Task ◽  
Priming Paradigm ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The main hypothesis of studies presented in this article is that episodic implicit evaluations (affects) toward task-relevant objects determine thinking and decisions by actively placing them within or outside the scope of attention. In these studies we also aimed to test the impact of regulatory focus on implicit evaluations and goal pursuit. We applied the Promotion-Prevention Self-control Scale as a measure of mind-set during thinking in the Wason Selection Task (WST) in Study 1 and Island Decision Game (IDG) in Study 2. Directly after learning of the tasks, participants evaluated (in affective priming paradigm) objects that constituted the task’s content. The findings are in line with the hypothesis stating that goals influence the way in which objects are automatically evaluated. The effects of promotion mind-set were more pronounced in both studies. Promotion-focused individuals positively assessed objects that serve as a confirmation. The implicit evaluations by prevention-oriented individuals disclosed their falsifying approach to the WST. The positive implicit evaluation of correct objects suggests their sensitivity to information useful for falsification and is consistent with their tendency to cautiously self-control thinking.

Interpersonal Influences on Self-Regulation

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gráinne M. Fitzsimons ◽  
Eli J. Finkel
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Interpersonal Processes ◽  
Goal Progress ◽  
The Social ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Goal Pursuits ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact

Since the 1960s, personality and social psychologists have taken major strides toward understanding the intrapersonal processes that promote successful self-regulation. The current article reviews insights into the understanding of self-regulation gained by examining the impact of interpersonal processes on the initiation, operation, and monitoring of goals. We review research suggesting that other people can act as triggers of goals, causing people to unconsciously initiate new goal pursuits; that interpersonal interactions can tap self-control, leaving people with depleted resources for goal pursuit; that relationship partners can support goal operation, leading to more effective goal pursuit; and that the social environment can facilitate effective monitoring of one’s extant goal progress and likelihood of future goal achievement.

scholarly journals The role of self-control and regulatory foci in money-saving behaviours among children

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 344-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agata Trzcińska ◽  
Katarzyna Sekścińska ◽  
Dominika Maison
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Economic Decisions ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Control Activation ◽  
Children’S Thinking

AbstractThe studies aimed to discover if it is possible to increase children’s ability to defer consumption in favour of saving money by drawing attention to the importance of self-control and by inducing regulatory focus of promotion or prevention. The first study confirmed that economic behaviours of children are connected to their level of self-control. Next, in two experimental studies, self-control and regulatory focus were experimentally induced in 9- to 11-year-old children. The second study (n = 158) showed that self-control activation results in preference of saving over immediate consumption for boys but not for girls. The third study (n = 144) showed that promotion regulatory focus activation results in preference of saving over immediate consumption, while after the activation of prevention regulatory focus, children prefer immediate consumption. The results indicate that sole activation in children’s thinking about the importance of self-control or about specific self-regulation motivations may influence saving behaviours. Nevertheless, due to the fact that males and females differ in self-control levels and in motivation for goal pursuit, inducing self-control or specific regulatory focus in children may have different effects on economic decisions, depending on a child’s gender.

scholarly journals Regulatory focus and generalized trust: the impact of prevention-focused self-regulation on trusting others

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Keller ◽  
Ruth Mayo ◽  
Rainer Greifeneder ◽  
Stefan Pfattheicher
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Generalized Trust ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON THE PROCESSES OF SELF-IDENTIFICATION OF ADOLESCENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Olga Vovchenko
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
The State ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Low Level ◽  
The Impact

The relevance of the study is due to two aspects: first, the complexity of adolescence, psychological problems faced by adolescents, their parents, educators and teachers; secondly, the lack of research not only the peculiarities of self-identification of adolescents with intellectual disabilities, but also the interaction of emotional intelligence on the formation of self-esteem, Self-concept and self-identification in general. Because self-identification and emotional intelligence require the adolescent's personality to actively participate in its formation and formation. These are two constructs in the structure of personality, which are based on reflection, self-regulation, self-awareness and further determine the vector of life of the adolescent, his/her place in social life. The aim of the article is to identify and experimentally test the state of formation of self-identification in adolescents with intellectual disabilities and the impact on its formation of emotional intelligence. The study used theoretical (deductive, inductive) and empirical (methods of psychodiagnostics) methods. Psychological diagnosis of the state of formation of self-identification in adolescents with intellectual disabilities was carried out using the method of «Hand-drawn apperceptive test (PAT)», the method of «Who am I? » (by M. Kuhn), conversations, observations. The result of the study was a statement of the fact that the vast majority of adolescents with intellectual disabilities have a low level of self-identification, only a small percentage of the studied adolescents have an average level. Such results are due to such personal characteristics of the adolescent as asociality, anxiety, diffidence, lack of self-control, inability to control stress-filled emotional states, low level of selfregulation (including emotional and volitional self-regulation), low level of emotional intelligence formation.

scholarly journals The Impact of Age Stereotypes on Well-being: Strategies of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation as Mediator and Regulatory Focus as Moderator: Findings from a Cross-Sectional and a Longitudinal Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Söllner ◽  
Mirjam Dürnberger ◽  
Johannes Keller ◽  
Arnd Florack
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Age Stereotypes ◽  
Regulatory Strategies ◽  
The Impact

AbstractIn a cross-sectional (Study 1) and a longitudinal study (Study 2), the authors examined whether the association between age stereotypes and well-being is mediated by self-regulatory engagement in goal pursuit. In Study 1 (N = 666), engagement in self-regulatory strategies of selection (e.g., selecting appropriate goals), optimization (e.g., acquiring resources for goal achievement), and compensation (e.g., searching for help) were assessed as potential mediators and, concurrently, regulatory focus was explored as a moderator of the association of age stereotypes and well-being. The results demonstrated consistent positive associations of positive age stereotypes and different kinds of well-being. These associations were partially mediated by optimization, but not by selection or compensation. Furthermore, the relationships between positive age stereotypes and well-being were attenuated for promotion-focused individuals. In Study 2 (N = 2325), we measured age stereotypes at baseline and several well-being measures at baseline as well as 6 and 9 years later. Age stereotypes at baseline predicted well-being at the later measurement times. Also, the associations between age stereotypes and different aspects of well-being were mediated by self-regulatory engagement in selection, optimization, and compensation.

scholarly journals Features of the impact of digital technologies on young people

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 10017
Author(s):  
Vlad Dmitriev ◽  
Galina Zvezdina
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Subjective Assessment ◽  
Self Control ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Computer Gaming ◽  
Dependent Behavior ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
Gaming Activity ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

The study of the psychological characteristics of gamers is an actual task for scientists associated with the rapid spread of gadgets, an increase in the number of gamers and the number of people with problems with addictive behavior from video games. The aim of this work is to study personality traits in people with different levels of computer gaming activity. The study involved 162 people aged 18 to 30, of whom 36 were women. The respondents were offered an electronic questionnaire, which included the Leonhard-Smishek Characterological Questionnaire, the adapted Chen Internet addiction scale, the Big Five questionnaire, Osgood's semantic differential, and the Behavioral self-regulation questionnaire. Data analysis was carried out using the Pearson linear correlation coefficient and the Mann-Whitney test. Calculations were performed in IBM SPSS Statistics. The results of people with a high level of dependent behavior are characterized by ambivalence: a low level of self-control and responsibility is combined with the presence of pedantry; a subjective assessment of oneself as a kinder, unselfish and honest person is adjacent to the characterization of oneself as more hostile and callous. The results obtained allowed us to make an assumption about the possibility of dividing the group of addicts into two subgroups: open, extroverted, hyperthymic, talkative people with a high rate of withdrawal syndrome and tolerance; people are introverted, closed, silent, with intrapersonal problems and health problems.

The impact of goal (non)attainment on consumer preference through changes in regulatory focus

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 637-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Mantovani ◽  
Eduardo B. Andrade ◽  
Paulo H.M. Prado
Keyword(s):  
Performance Feedback ◽  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Goal Attainment ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Consumer Preference ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Future Events ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Previous research has investigated how performance outcome impacts effort and subsequent goal pursuit. However, little is known about the incidental impact of goal (non)attainment on consumer preference via changes in regulatory focus. This paper aims to suggest that performance feedback has a direct impact on consumers’ regulatory focus, which in turn influences their attitudes and preferences toward future events. Additionally, the authors assess the extent to which emotions arising out of goal (non)attainment play a critical role in the process. Design/methodology/approach In a series of three experiments, this paper demonstrates that goal (non)attainment induces a specific regulatory focus, which in turn interacts with the frame of an upcoming advertisement to impact consumer preference. Findings This research demonstrates that previous goal (non)attainment interacts with the framing of an upcoming message (promotion vs prevention) and impacts consumer preference. The authors also find initial evidence for the role of emotions on the relationship between goal (non) attainment and preferences for regulatory-focused message frames. Practical implications The findings have important implications because they reveal consumers’ preferences after goal (non)attainment. Originality/value This study complements prior research by integrating two research streams (goal pursuit and regulatory focus) to address an open question of whether/how goal (non)attainment impacts message persuasiveness and consumer preference through changes in regulatory focus. Therefore, this research is intended to contribute to the literature by addressing the interacting effects of goal attainment and regulatory focus on consumer decisions and the role of emotions in this process.

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.

scholarly journals A-10 Grit Predicts Depression, Anxiety, and Subjective Cognitive Complaints Despite Normal Cognitive Performance in College Athletes

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 606-606
Author(s):  
A Crane ◽  
A DaCosta ◽  
F Webbe ◽  
A Logalbo
Keyword(s):  
College Athletes ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Neuropsychological Testing ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Collegiate Athletes ◽  
Cognitive Testing ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Patient Health ◽  
Cognitive Problems ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Objective Grit is defined as a non-cognitive variable that assesses perseverance and passion for long-term goals (Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, & Kelly, 2007). Current literature demonstrates a relationship between grit and self-control, self-regulation, depression, and anxiety in collegiate students (Muenks, Wigfield, Yang, & O’Neal, 2017; Akos & Kretchmar, 2017; Salles, et. Al. 2016; Masika Musumar, et al. 2018). However, the relationship between grit and relevant sports neuropsychology variables in college athletes has yet to be explored. Method Division II collegiate athletes (n = 453, ages 18–23, mean age = 19.79) underwent annual pre-participation baseline evaluation, which included the 12-item grit scale, Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), Generalized Anxiety Disorder–7 (GAD-7), Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 5th edition (SCAT-5), and Immediate Post Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT). Results Lower levels of grit significantly predicted higher scores on the PHQ-9 (R2 = .053, p < .001), GAD-7 (R2 = .026, p = .002), SCAT-5 total symptoms (R2 = .038, p < .001), and ImPACT symptom score (R2 = .016, p = .015). Interestingly, Grit significantly predicted the ImPACT cognitive symptom cluster (R2 = .029, p = .001), but none of the other symptom clusters or cognitive domains. Similarly, Grit significantly predicted the SCAT-5 cognitive (R2 = .04, p < .001) and sleep clusters (R2 = .016, p = .015). Conclusions Consistent with literature in non-athletes, grit is related to mood difficulties. Uniquely, athletes with lower levels of grit are consistently reporting more cognitive problems, but these perceived cognitive problems are not substantiated by objective neuropsychological testing.

The impact of founder’s regulatory focus on the process of firm birth and firm abandonment

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paris Koumbarakis ◽  
Heiko Bergmann ◽  
Thierry Volery
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Regulatory Fit ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Firm Birth ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Promotion Orientation ◽  
Longitudinal Dataset

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to show how self-regulation influences the relationship between nascent entrepreneurial exploitation activities, firm birth and firm abandonment.Design/methodology/approachThis study draws from a unique longitudinal dataset of 181 nascent entrepreneurs from Switzerland who have been interviewed by phone in 2015 and 2016. It uses a moderated binary logistic regression to test the hypotheses.FindingsThis study provides evidence that discrepancies in promotion orientation can explain different ways exploitation can lead to an increased likelihood of firm birth and a decreased likelihood of firm abandonment while respectively increasing persistence. Findings suggest that this is attributed to the regulatory fit between a promotion orientation and exploitation activities.Research limitations/implicationsFor scholars, our findings provide insights into reasons for entrepreneurial persistence, as well as how firm birth can be achieved with different levels of exploitation activities.Practical implicationsThis study provides entrepreneurs with information on how to increase their persistence as well as the likelihood of firm birth while considering their regulatory focus.Originality/valueBased on regulatory focus theory, this paper highlights different paths to firm birth with varying quantity of exploitation activities. We contribute to a greater understanding of firm emergence by accounting for the impact of regulatory foci.

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