Commentary: What's in a word (or words) – on the relations among self‐regulation, self‐control, exec… - SLUB Dresden

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Title: Commentary: What's in a word (or words) – on the relations among self‐regulation, self‐control, executive functioning, effortful control, cognitive control, impulsivity, risk‐taking, and inhibition for developmental psychopathology – reflections on Nigg (2017)
Contributor: Eisenberg, Nancy
imprint: Wiley, 2017
Published in: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Language: English
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12707
ISSN: 1469-7610; 0021-9630
Keywords: Psychiatry and Mental health ; Developmental and Educational Psychology ; Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
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Description: <jats:p>In Nigg's excellent article, he deals with a variety of complex conceptual issues related to the constructs of self‐regulation and executive functioning (<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">EF</jats:styled-content>). Overall, I agree that the terminology proposed by Nigg should be adopted; moreover, the conceptual distinctions he provides should help the field to move forward with regard to the understanding of varied constructs related to self‐regulation. In the spirit of further clarification, I questioned Nigg's suggestions that (a) working memory should be considered as part of the construct of top‐down regulation and (b) planning is a higher level component of <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">EF</jats:styled-content> but not part of effortful control. In addition, I discussed my perspective on the role of automaticity in defining top‐down versus bottom‐up self‐regulatory processes and the role of flexibility in top‐down self‐regulatory processes and their relation to personality resiliency.</jats:p>

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