{"id":79123,"date":"2025-11-14T19:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/self-control-theory\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:56:37","slug":"self-control-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/self-control-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Control Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A theory that states that a person&#8217;s level of self-control is a fundamental factor in determining patterns of behavior, including behavior on the road. People with low self-control tend to be impulsive, seek immediate gratification, ignore long-term consequences, and are prone to taking risks, which manifests themselves in aggressive or reckless driving. In contrast, people with high self-control are characterized by discretion, control of emotions, and consideration of consequences, which makes them more law-abiding and prone to defensive driving.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A theory that states that a person&#8217;s level of self-control is a fundamental factor in determining patterns of behavior, including behavior on the road. People with low self-control tend to be impulsive, seek immediate gratification, ignore long-term consequences, and are prone to taking risks, which manifests themselves in aggressive or reckless driving. In contrast, people [&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":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-traffic-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79123","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=79123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}