Handbook of Personality and Self-Regulation

by Editor: Rick H. Hoyle (Duke University, USA )

• ISBN13: 9781444318128
• ISBN10: 1444318128
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-12-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Handbook of Personality and Self-Regulation integrates scholarly research on self-regulation in the personality, developmental, and social psychology traditions for a broad audience of social and behavioral scientists interested in the processes by which people control, or fail to control, their own behavior. Examines self-regulation as it influences and is influenced by basic personality processes in normal adults Offers 21 original contributions from an internationally respected group of scholars in the fields of personality and self-regulation Explores the causes and consequences of inadequate self-regulation and the means by which self-regulation might be improved Integrates empirical findings on basic personality traits with findings inspired by emerging models of self-regulation Provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and stimulating view of the field for students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines

Table of Contents

About the Editor

List of Contributors

Preface

Personality and Self-Regulation

Temperament And Early Personality

Relations of Self-Regulatory/Control Capacities to Maladjustment, Social Competence, and Emotionality

Delay of Gratification: A Review of Fifty Years of Regulation Research

Self-Regulation as the Interface of Emotional and Cognitive Development: Implications for Education and Academic Achievement

Exploring Response-Monitoring: Developmental Differences and Contributions to Self-Regulation

Personality Processes

Signatures and Self-Regulation Processing: Dynamics of the Self-System

Self-Regulation and the Five-Factor Model of Personality Traits

Self-Determination Theory and the Relation of Autonomy to Self-Regulatory Processes and Personality Development

Interest and Self-Regulation: Understanding Individual Variability in Choices, Efforts and Persistence Over Time

Goal Systems and Self-Regulation: An Individual Differences Perspective

Acting on Limited Resources: The Interactive Effects of Self-Regulatory Depletion and Individual Differences

Individual Differences

Working Memory Capacity and Self-Regulation

Regulatory Focus in a Demanding World

Self-Efficacy

Dealing with High Demands: The Role of Action versus State Orientation

The Cybernetic Process Model of Self-Control: Situation- and Person-Specific Considerations

Modes of Self-Regulation: Assessment and Locomotion as Independent Determinants in Goal-Pursuit

The Costly Pursuit of Self-Esteem: Implications for Self-Regulation

Self-Regulation of State Self-Esteem Following Threat: Moderation by Trait Self-Esteem

Individual Differences in Approach and Avoidance: Behavioral Activation/Inhibition and Regulatory Focus as Distinct Levels of Analysis

Hypo-egoic Self-Regulation

Index

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