Frontiers in Psychology (Jul 2022)

Advances on Self-Regulation Models: A New Research Agenda Through the SR vs ER Behavior Theory in Different Psychology Contexts

  • Jesús de la Fuente,
  • Jesús de la Fuente,
  • José Manuel Martínez-Vicente,
  • Flavia H. Santos,
  • Paul Sander,
  • Salvatore Fadda,
  • Evangelia Karagiannopoulou,
  • Evely Boruchovitch,
  • Douglas F. Kauffman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.861493
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13

Abstract

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The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory (1986) influenced the development of several complementary models of the construct of Self-Regulation. Building on the foundation of Self-Determination Theory, SDT (2000), and Zimmerman's Self-Regulation Theory, SR (2001), with their assumptions, contributions, goddesses, and limitations, we come to the Self- vs. External Regulatory Theory, SR-ER (2021). Finally, we integrate recent evidence demonstrating the explanatory adequacy of the SR vs. ER model for different psychological constructions in different settings related to education, health, clinical practice and social work. Complementary, a new theoretical and empirical research agenda is presented, to continue testing the adequacy of SR vs. ER assumptions, and to better understand the behavioral variability of the different constructs studied.

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