رسالة جامعية
A Multimethod Assessment of Effortful Self-Regulation in Personality Research: Temperamental, Neuropsychological, and Psychophysiological Concomitants
| العنوان: | A Multimethod Assessment of Effortful Self-Regulation in Personality Research: Temperamental, Neuropsychological, and Psychophysiological Concomitants |
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| المؤلفون: | Dinovo, Salvatore Augustine, Jr. |
| بيانات النشر: | The Ohio State University / OhioLINK, 2009. |
| سنة النشر: | 2009 |
| المجموعة: | Ohiolink ETDs |
| Original Material: | http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1259076504Test |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Psychology, Self Regulation, Self Control, Personality, Effortful Control, Executive Functioning, Heart Rate Variability, Psychopathology |
| الوصف: | The self-regulatory construct known as effortful control (EC) has garnered considerable support from childhood psychopathology research (e.g. Muris, de Jong, & Engelen, 2004), which has relied upon multiple methods of data acquisition, including questionnaires and performance-based measures. Corroborative findings have emerged from adult research indicating that deficits in effortful control may serve as a risk factor for the development of anxiety and depression (e.g. Dinovo & Vasey, 2003, 2005), yet adult research exploring this construct has relied almost exclusively on self-reports. An important step in remedying this deficit would be additional validation of existing self-reports of EC. Fortunately, means for assessing a self-regulatory construct like effortful control are plentiful within the extant scientific literature, particularly from research on executive functions: neurological processes that permit self-regulation. Moreover, converging findings from physiological investigations of executive function and the cardiovascular system suggest that the processes underlying self-regulation can be indirectly assessed via measures of heart-rate variability (HRV), since many of the neural structures implicated in executive function also modulate heart rate (Ruiz-Padial et al., 2003).Using correlation- and regression analyses within an undergraduate student sample, this investigation found that self-reported EC held significant relations with physiological measurements of heart-rate variability. By contrast, neither self-reported EC nor indices of HRV were related to performance-based measures of executive functioning. Thus, while providing some important support for the validity of self-report instruments used in the extant adult literature exploring EC, not all findings were consistent with expectations. Implications for the construct of EC and future directions for research are discussed. |
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| نوع الوثيقة: | Text |
| اللغة: | English |
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