To investigate how people anticipate and attempt to shape others’ self-regulatory efforts, this work examined the impact of abstract and concrete mindsets on attention to goal-relevant aspects of others’ situations. An abstract (relative to a concrete) mindset, by making accessible the cognitive operation of considering activities’ purpose (versus process) was predicted to focus attention on ho...

This study examined constructs drawn from social-cognitive theory (A. Bandura, 1986) and self-determination theory (E. L. Deci & R. M. Ryan, 1985, 1991) in relation to dietary self-care and life satisfaction among 638 individuals with diabetes. A motivational model of diabetes dietary self-care was proposed, which postulates direct links between self-efficacy/autonomous self-regulation, and adh...

Self-concept the capacity of a person to realize his/her physical and psychic readiness and to act in the direction of discovering new inherent particulars represents a rather late acquisition in human development, nevertheless having multiple implications on the level of personality structure. Self-image, a product of self-concept represents the essential reference point of behavioural and emo...

Mindfulness-based curricular interventions can support adolescents who are at risk of school failure as they negotiate the transition from high school into young adulthood. Researchers hypothesized that a 6-week mindfulness-based intervention would lower participants' perceived stress while increasing their reported levels of self-esteem. Participants (N = 23) ranged in age from 17 to 20 years ...

This paper presents the procedures and findings of a systematic review of research on the impact of testing on students’ motivation for learning. The review was undertaken to provide evidence in relation to claims that, on the one hand, testing raises standards and, on the other, that testing, particularly in high stakes contexts, has a negative impact on motivation for learning that militates ...

AIMS This study investigated the efficacy of structured writing on reducing self-harm ideations and enhancing emotion regulation. METHODS Japanese university students (N=22) participated in the study. Participants were randomly assigned to the structured writing group (n=10; 70% female), or an assessment only control group (n=12; 67% female). For three consecutive days, participants in the in...

This paper analyses reputation-based incentives for self regulation from a principal-agent perspective, in a context of asymmetric information. Self Regulatory Organisations (SROs) have scant incentives to monitor quality and expose fraud because fraud exposure is often interpreted by Bayesian consumers as a bad signal of SRO quality. However, public regulation in parallel to Self Regulation ca...

We examine how making mortality salient affects consumer choices. We develop a new theoretical framework predicting when consumer behaviors will be more (less) indulgent when mortality is salient, arguing that individuals focus more of their limited self-regulatory resources on domains that are important sources of self-esteem and less on domains that are not important sources. In two domains, ...

As more and more studies acknowledge that students are basic contributors to the learning process, factors such as self concept, (computer) self-efficacy and self-regulation are important in enhancing human performance. Nevertheless, these learner characteristics have received little attention in the e-learning environment. This paper presents the results of a study indicating significant posit...

Various subsets of self-avoiding walks naturally appear when investigating existing methods designed to predict the 3D conformation of a protein of interest. Two such subsets, namely the folded and the unfoldable self-avoiding walks, are studied computationally in this article. We show that these two sets are equal and correspond to the whole n-step self-avoiding walks for n≤14, but that they a...