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- Self-regulation is being able to control our own thoughts, feelings, and actions for our own benefit.
- It involves monitoring one’s own actions and reactions. When one engages in self-regulation, he avoids impulsive reactions.
- It also involves predicting the consequences of our behaviour and avoiding behavioural patterns which can negatively affect ourselves or others in the future.
- Self-regulation also involves focusing on certain parts of life and ignoring some other parts for the time being, e.g. as exams approach, a person will stop spending time on Netflix and focus on studies.
- Higgins’ research on regulatory focus showed that people either have promotion regulatory focus or prevention regulatory focus.
- It means people either focus on achieving positive outcomes or don’t do anything in order to prevent negative outcomes.
- Self-regulation has crucial implications in our life.
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