HC4 Flashcards
Self-regulation
a sequence of actions intended to attain a
personal goal.
Human goals: within person
affective goals
Cognitive goals
Subjective organization goals
Human goals: person-environment
- self-assertive social relationship goals
- Integrative social relationship goals
- task goals
Goal orientation theory (Higgins)
People tend to have a preferential goal orientation:
- promotion focus = growth and personal development
- prevention focus = concern with protection, safety, a strong sense of resposibility
Two forms of self-regulation (from dual-process/dual route theory)
Self-regulation type 1 - temporally extended process of relatively effortful mobilization of skills, resources, and strategic knowledge that enables movement toward or away from personal goals
–> controlled, reflective, conscious, anterior congulate cortex mediated
Self-regulation type 2 - temporally limited process of relatively effortless deployment of skills, resources and strategic knowledge that enables movement toward or away from personal goals
–> automatic, implicit, nonconscious, amygdala mediated
self-control
= special case of self-regulation
Altering habitual behavioral response pattern that is characterized by conflicting temporal consequences (reward punishment)
3 phases of self-regulation
1 goal selection
2 active goal pursuit
3 goal attainment, maintenance and disengagement
Crucial SR skill 1 goal selection (A, B & C)
A self-monitoring –> awareness/understanding
B Personal goal setting –> specific, important to the client, not too easy/difficult & attainable in a time frame
C Planning: bridging the motivation/action gap –> Implementation intentions (Do X when Y) reflect WHAT, WHY and WHEN, WHERE & HOW etc.
Crucial SR skill 2 active goal pursuit: D
D feedback –> evaluate goal progress
(Feedback vs) Feed-forward (Bandura)
+ importance of OE and SE in personal goal attainment
= Capacity to identify external conditions and internal capacities that influence the attainment of a goal.
a) Outcome expectancies (OE):
belief that a behaviour will lead to certain outcomes depending on external circumstances
b) Efficacy expectations (EE) or Self-efficacy (SE): belief that one is capable of executing behaviours required to reach these
outcomes (internal)
Crucial SR skill 2 active goal pursuit: F
F control mechanisms
a) attention control: focusing on goal-related rather than on distracting
information
b) emotion control: disengaging from negative mood if it interferes
with goal pursuit
c) motivation control: enhancing goal attractiveness
d) coping with failure: using failure as an opportunity for learning
e) control over competing goals
Crucial SR skill 2 active goal pursuit: G
Self-talk & self-administered consequences –> self reward & punishment
- self-reward –> increases self-esteem –> self-motivation gets easier
Reward caveat
A therapist should prevent that the reward is self-destructive in
nature
–> importance of intrinsic motivation
Deci & Ryan’s Self-determination theory
highest level - lowest level:
- intrinsic motivation
- regulation through identification
- introjected regulation (ego)
- external regulation (operant conditioning)
- Amotivation
self-restraint
learning ro decrease excessive behaiors
