Self-control in school age children

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Abstract

Conflicts between immediately rewarding activities and more enduringly valued goals abound in

the lives of school-age children. Such conflicts call upon children to exercise self-control, a

competence which depends in large part on the mastery of metacognitive, prospective strategies.

The process model of self-control organizes these strategies into five families corresponding to

sequential phases in the process by which undesired and desired impulses lose or gather force

over time: Situation selection and situation modification strategies involve choosing or changing

physical or social circumstances. Attentional deployment and cognitive change strategies involve

altering whether and how objective features of the situation are mentally represented. Finally,

response modulation strategies involve the direct suppression or elevation of impulses. The

process model of self-control predicts that strategies deployed earlier in the process of impulse

generation and regulation will generally be more effective than those deployed later.