title: Influences of children's and adolescents' action-control processes on school achievement, peer relationships, and coping with challenging life events.
abstract: Self-regulation represents a core aspect of human functioning that influences positive development across the life span. This chapter focuses on the action-control model, a key facet of self-regulation during childhood and early adolescence. The authors discuss the development of action-control beliefs, paying particular attention to their relationship to indices of positive development. They then discuss how linking the action-control model with other theories of self-regulation can inform our understanding of self-regulation across the life span.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Kansas , USA.
authors: G John
authors: GJ
authors: Geldhof
authors: Todd D
authors: TD
authors: Little
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008016:Life Change Events; D010379:Peer Group; D012574:Schools; D012919:Social Behavior; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*