Self-regulation and self-control
12 important questions on Self-regulation and self-control
What distinction can be made in goal pursuit?
- Avoidance goal pursuit --> anxiety over loss/fear of punishment
What classification of human goals was made by Ford & Nichols in their Taxonomy of human goals and what are they?
2. Person-environment goals
Every goal can be formulated in a approach or avoidance goal.
Higgins made a distinction betwen a promotion and prevention focused goal orientation, what do they entail?
- Promotion focused goals are about advancement, growth, development
- situations are judged as gain/non gain
- goal attainment results in happiness, foal failure in distress
- Prevention focus: concern with protection and safety, sense of responsibility
- situation are judged in terms of loss/ non loss
- Goal attainment results in relief and contentment. Failure in agitation and anxiety.
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What is the association between goal orientation and depression?
What is the association between goal orientation and agitated mood and clinical anxiety?
How to address the disbalance in prevention/promotion focused goals in therapy in clinical depression/anxiety?
- In therapy focus on enhanced attainment of the promotion focused goals by learning the client to cope with distress (overcoming obstacles)
- Cognitive restructuring to decrease the prevention focused goal attainment.
Why is it relevant to focus on self-regulation in therapy?
A therapist can help clients learn to self-regulate their thoughts/behaviours/emotions/physical symptoms ("becoming their own therapist")
Out of which three phases does self-regulation exists?
- Goal selection, setting & construal, representation
- Active goal pursuit
- Goal attainment, maintenance and disengagement
What are important self-regulation skils for goals selection phase?
- Self-monitoring -> understand why someone engages in unwanted behaviour (antecedents/consequences)
- Personal goal setting: specific, relevant, good level of difficulty, attainable within a specific time frame.
- Planning (bridging intention-motivation/action gap) -> implementation intentions; what, where, when, how, who, why?
What are important SR skills in phase 2, active goal pursuit?
- Feedback: To compare progress to a start/reference point. Evaulate progress so far.
- Feedforward
- Control mechanisms
- Self-talk and Self-administred consequences
What are important predicators for goal maintenance?
Why is disengagement an important aspect of self-regulation?
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