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Title: | The doubled-edged sword of self-regulation: Developmental, temperamental, and contextual considerations |
Authors: | Hassan, Raha |
Advisor: | Schmidt, Louis A |
Department: | Psychology |
Keywords: | temperament;self-regulation;inhibitory control;shyness;child;peers |
Publication Date: | 2023 |
Abstract: | Temperamental self-regulation is typically associated with adaptive outcomes, but considerably less is known about the correlates of rudimentary self-regulation—regulatory capacity—in infancy. Some theoretical frameworks also suggest that low and high levels of inhibitory control—one component of temperamental self-regulation—may be related to negative outcomes, and further that this may depend on individual differences in shyness. In this dissertation, I examined the functional correlates of infants’ regulatory capacity moderated by physiological regulation (Chapter 2), the negative consequences of low and high levels of inhibitory control on preschoolers’ social and psychological outcomes (Chapter 3), and the social (Chapter 4) and contextual (Chapter 5) factors modifying the impact of inhibitory control on shy children’s interpersonal outcomes. In Chapter 2, I found that infants’ regulatory capacity was only negatively related to behavior problems when infants displayed high levels of physiological regulation during an emotionally salient stressor. In Chapter 3, I found that very low and high levels of inhibitory control were related to the highest levels of avoidant social behavior and internalizing and externalizing problems in preschoolers. In Chapter 4, I found that preschoolers’ shyness was only negatively associated with their own observed approach behavior when their own inhibitory control was high (actor effects), and this pattern of results differed when examining the partner’s observed behavior (partner effects). In Chapter 5, I found that shyness was negatively associated with social support seeking when preschoolers displayed high levels of inhibitory control in an unfamiliar context, and this pattern of results differed in a familiar context. These studies challenge the longstanding belief that self-regulatory processes are adaptive for all children all the time, and suggest that developmental, temperamental, and contextual factors may influence whether self-regulation acts as a resiliency or risk factor. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/28869 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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