Improving self-regulation can be seen as a central objective of youth psychotherapy. Five decades of psychotherapy research have produced an array of evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs), but meta-analyses have shown that these EBPs show only a modest advantage over treatments-as-usual. This suggests a need for therapies that can clearly improve upon usual practice. The Modular Approach to The...

The ability to disengage from hopeless situations is critical to goal attainment and effective selfregulation. Two experiments investigated the effects of striving to attain success (approach goals) versus striving to avoid failure (avoidance goals) on persistence. Participants completed anagrams designed so that less persistence during an initial set of unsolvable anagrams was beneficial. In S...

Appetitive aggression – a rewarding perception of the perpetration of violence – seems to be an adaptation common to adverse conditions. Children raised within armed groups may develop attitudes and values that favour harming others when socialized within a combat force. Combatants who joined an armed force early in their lives should, therefore, perceive aggression in a more appetitive way tha...

The purpose of this Essay is to examine current EU and U.S. approaches to data protection in the context of the debate about transborder data flows. Part I begins by outlining the EU approach and the criteria governing data transfers to third countries. Part II examines the scope for selfregulation by organizations to safeguard personal data. Part III reviews the main features of the U.S. model...

Finding reemployment after job loss is a complex and difficult task that requires extensive motivation and self-regulation. This study aimed to examine whether improving unemployed job seekers’ cognitive selfregulation can increase reemployment probabilities. Based on the goal orientation literature, we developed a learning-goal orientation (LGO) training, which focused on goal setting aimed at...

Parents and educators dealing with children (or adults) with ADHD are likely to have heard increasing references to the terms “executive functioning” (EF) and “self-regulation” over the past few years. Numerous books on this topic have appeared during that time along with hundreds of scientific papers focusing on the relationship between these constructs, or ideas, and ADHD. One often hears tha...

Self-regulation is an important prerequisite for successful academic achievement, particularly for children who are at risk for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We taught Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions (MCII), a technique that is known to facilitate the self-regulation of goal pursuit, to schoolchildren (sixthand seventh-graders) both at risk and not at risk f...

A control law combining motion performance quality and low stiffness reaction to unintended contacts is proposed in this work. It achieves prescribed performance evolution of the position error under disturbances up to a level related to model uncertainties and responds compliantly and with low stiffness to significant disturbances arising from impact forces. The controller employs a velocity r...

In this study we examined whether children’s working memory could be enhanced by adaptive cognitive training (ACT) and whether training outcomes would relate to behavioral self-regulation, a measure of executive control (EC) and certain pre-reading outcomes (phoneme awareness and letter knowledge). Children from economically disadvantaged communities were randomly assigned to an ACT (n = 23) or...

Self-regulation is a process that allows organisms to guide their behavior in the pursuit of their goals—desired end states they are committed to. Self-regulation is also a vital capacity that allows people to master their thoughts, feelings, and actions and concerns a high number of psychological processes, ranging from executive cognitive functions like attention control to higher-order proce...