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Adolescents' Resilience as a Self‐Regulatory Process
Author(s) -
DISHION THOMAS J.,
CONNELL ARIN
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1376.012
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , psychological resilience , construct (python library) , self control , deviance (statistics) , emotional regulation , clinical psychology , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , computer science , programming language
Abstract: This chapter focuses on the concept of self‐regulation as a measure of resilience in children and adolescents. Developmental psychology and neuroscience are converging on the role of attention control as a central ability underlying self‐regulation. We collected measures of adolescent attention control from parents and youth, and a measure of self‐regulation from teachers. The measures of effortful attention correlated highly with teacher ratings of self‐regulation. The composite measure of self‐regulation (youth, parent, teacher report) was found to moderate the impact of peer deviance on adolescent antisocial behavior, as well as stress on adolescent depression. These findings suggest that self‐regulation is a promising index of adolescent resilience. The construct of self‐regulation also provides an excellent target for strategies aimed to improve child and adolescent adjustment in problematic environments and stressful circumstances.