{"id":58802,"date":"2025-11-14T08:17:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/theory-of-self-regulation\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:17:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:17:32","slug":"theory-of-self-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/theory-of-self-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Theory of self-regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a system is a mechanism for consciously controlling one&#8217;s own thoughts, behavior and feelings to achieve goals. The basic assumption of the theory is that self-regulation involves many interrelated processes, such as goal setting, motivation, planning, monitoring, and behavior correction. One of the researchers of self-regulation and self-efficacy, the American-Canadian psychologist Albert Bandura, identified several key mechanisms of self-regulation:<br \/>\n1) self-observation: the ability of a person to observe his behavior and assess its compliance with goals;<br \/>\n2) self-esteem: the ability to assess one&#8217;s capabilities, set goals and compare one&#8217;s performance with these goals;<br \/>\n3) self-regulation of behavior: the ability to control one&#8217;s behavior, taking into account internal and external factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a system is a mechanism for consciously controlling one&#8217;s own thoughts, behavior and feelings to achieve goals. The basic assumption of the theory is that self-regulation involves many interrelated processes, such as goal setting, motivation, planning, monitoring, and behavior correction. One of the researchers of self-regulation and self-efficacy, the American-Canadian psychologist Albert Bandura, identified several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-positive-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}