Conceptualization, Tasks and Neurobiological Correlates of Self-Regulation in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review of the Literature (2015-2020)
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2022
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Abstract
Background:
Self-regulation is a complex capacity that favors the modification of behavior in accordance with environmental demands.
Objective:
This article aims to review the scientific literature that conceptualizes self-regulation, analyze its potential latent dimensions, identify the instruments used to measure this construct and the empirical findings associated with its neurobiological correlates.
Methods:
A systematic review of the scientific literature published between 2015 and 2020. We include 29 empirical studies on children and adolescents self-regulatory capacity after combining the words self-regulation with cognition, brain and neurosciences.
Results:
Most of the articles included are from North America. A PICOS analysis was performed to increase understanding of self-regulatory capacity. Two dimensions of self-regulation are identified, contributing to a more global conceptualization of the concept of self-regulation; A cognitive dimension associated with executive functions, effortful control and inhibitory control, among others, and a dimension associated with personality, including traits such as irritability, impulsivity, openness and hyperactivity. Next, the instruments used to measure self-regulation are described, followed by a report of the important neurobiological findings, specifically, activation of the anterior cingulate cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal and ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
Conclusion:
Self-regulatory capacity is associated with a complex functioning that favors adaptive behavior and has neurobiological correlates.
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Josefina LarraĆn-Valenzuela; Francisca Mardones; Elisa Ansoleaga; Leonie Kausel(2022). Conceptualization, Tasks and Neurobiological Correlates of Self-Regulation in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review of the Literature (2015-2020). The Open Psychology Journal 15(1) DOI:10.2174/18743501-v15-e2202040
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Systematic-review, Self-regulation behavior, Dimensions cognitive, Dimensions personality, Measure, Neurobiological