On the development of self-control and deviance from preschool to middle adolescence

Vazsonyi, Alexander T.; Jiskrova, Gabriela Ksinan

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2017.08.005

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“…As individuals mature, they shift from stimulus-response behavioural orientation to a rule-based cognitive orientation (Kendler et al 1969). Several studies (e.g., Hay and Forrest 2006;Higgins et al 2009;Vazsonyi and Jiskrova 2017) found that self-control ability significantly increases during childhood, but its level stabilises sometime between the ages of 8 and 10 years. Then, up to the age of 15, the majority of children show considerable stability in self-control (Hay and Forrest 2006).…”

Section: Self-control In Children's Economic Decisionsmentioning

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The role of self-control and regulatory foci in money-saving behaviours among children

2018

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The studies aimed to discover if it is possible to increase children's ability to defer consumption in favour of saving money by drawing attention to the importance of self-control and by inducing regulatory focus of promotion or prevention. The first study confirmed that economic behaviours of children are connected to their level of self-control. Next, in two experimental studies, self-control and regulatory focus were experimentally induced in 9-to 11-year-old children. The second study (n = 158) showed that self-control activation results in preference of saving over immediate consumption for boys but not for girls. The third study (n = 144) showed that promotion regulatory focus activation results in preference of saving over immediate consumption, while after the activation of prevention regulatory focus, children prefer immediate consumption. The results indicate that sole activation in children's thinking about the importance of self-control or about specific self-regulation motivations may influence saving behaviours. Nevertheless, due to the fact that males and females differ in self-control levels and in motivation for goal pursuit, inducing self-control or specific regulatory focus in children may have different effects on economic decisions, depending on a child's gender.

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“…These inconsistent findings might be explained by the notion that parenting is most strongly associated with self-control during early and middle childhood and less in other developmental periods (Gottfredson & Hirschi, 1990; Hay & Meldrum, 2016; Kochanska, 1993; Kopp, 1982; Meldrum, Young, Hay, & Flexon, 2012; Vazsonyi & Jiskrova, 2017). During early and middle childhood, children rely mostly on their parents for decision making, behavior guidance, and emotion regulation, and parents support children with their self-regulatory capacities by providing an environment in which they assist their children in regulating inner feelings and behaviors (Kopp, 1982; Sameroff, 2010).…”

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Parenting and Self-Control Across Early to Late Adolescence: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis

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Stok

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Perspect Psychol Sci

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Self-control plays a significant role in positive youth development. Although numerous self-control challenges occur during adolescence, some adolescents control themselves better than others. Parenting is considered a critical factor that distinguishes adolescents with good self-control from those with poor self-control, but existing findings are inconsistent. This meta-analysis summarizes the overall relationship between parenting and self-control among adolescents aged 10 to 22 years. The analysis includes 191 articles reporting 1,540 effect sizes ( N = 164,459). The results show that parenting is associated with adolescents’ self-control both concurrently ( r = .204, p < .001) and longitudinally ( r = .157, p < .001). Longitudinal studies also reveal that adolescents’ self-control influences subsequent parenting ( r = .155, p < .001). Moderator analyses show that the effect sizes are largely invariant across cultures, ethnicities, age of adolescents, and parent and youth gender. Our results point to the importance of parenting in individual differences in adolescent self-control and vice versa.

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“…Con respecto a los resultados del estudio de validez criterio se encontraron correlaciones negativas, moderadas y estadísticamente significativas entre las siete dimensiones de la EDN y el autocontrol. Estos resultados concuerdan con investigaciones previas realizadas en población general (adolescentes, jóvenes y adultos) que concluyeron que a menores niveles en la variable autocontrol, mayor es la presencia de conductas antisociales (Cihan & Tittle, 2019;Ridder, Lensvelt-Mulders, Finkenauer, Stok, & Baumeister, 2018;Vazsonyi & Jiskrova, 2018). Además, nuestros resultados concuerdan con la direccionalidad y el grado de asociación que manifiesta la conducta antisocial y el autocontrol en estudios previos (Baron, 2003; Bunch, Iratzoqui, & Watts, 2018;Chui & Chan, 2013;Tillyer et al, 2018;Walters et al, 2018).…”

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On the development of self-control and deviance from preschool to middle adolescence

Cited by 51 publications

References 46 publications

The role of self-control and regulatory foci in money-saving behaviours among children

The role of self-control and regulatory foci in money-saving behaviours among children

Parenting and Self-Control Across Early to Late Adolescence: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis

Propiedades psicométricas de la Escala de Desviación de la Norma en jóvenes

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