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Self-Regulation as a Correlate of Psychological Well-Being.


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1 Department of Psychology, Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India
     

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Self-regulation is the capacity of the individual to disregard prominent responses and to regulate affects, cognitions, and behaviors. It is the ability to alter thoughts, feelings, desires and actions in the perspective of such higher goals and would represent one of the most adaptive variables of the human behaviour (Vohs & baumister, 2004). Selfregulation capacity was found to play a key role in the development of psychological well-being (e.g., Gagnon, Durand-Bush, & Young, 2016, Brilki, 2017) because high self-regulatory capacity should strengthen the intention- behaviour relationship because it enables an individual to inhibit undesired responses (de Ridder, Lensvelt- Mulders, Finkenauer, Stok, & Baumeister, 2012). Therefore, the present study attempts to examine whether the selfregulation ability might associate or linked with psychological well-being. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self- regulation capacity and psychological well-being in 100 young adults. Short form of the original Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SSRQ; Carey, Neal, & Collins, 2004) and Psychological Well-Being scale (Ryff & Keyes, 1995) were used to fulfill the purpose of the study. Pearson correlation analyses showed that self-regulation capacity positively associated with psychological well-being and its dimension; personal growth, positive relations with others, purpose in life and self-acceptance and negatively associated with autonomy and environmental mastery. As a positive construct implication of self-regulation to maintain optimal mental health was discussed.

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Self-Regulation, Psychological Well-Being, Young Adults.
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Surjeet Singh
Department of Psychology, Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India
Nov Rattan Sharma
Department of Psychology, Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India

Abstract


Self-regulation is the capacity of the individual to disregard prominent responses and to regulate affects, cognitions, and behaviors. It is the ability to alter thoughts, feelings, desires and actions in the perspective of such higher goals and would represent one of the most adaptive variables of the human behaviour (Vohs & baumister, 2004). Selfregulation capacity was found to play a key role in the development of psychological well-being (e.g., Gagnon, Durand-Bush, & Young, 2016, Brilki, 2017) because high self-regulatory capacity should strengthen the intention- behaviour relationship because it enables an individual to inhibit undesired responses (de Ridder, Lensvelt- Mulders, Finkenauer, Stok, & Baumeister, 2012). Therefore, the present study attempts to examine whether the selfregulation ability might associate or linked with psychological well-being. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self- regulation capacity and psychological well-being in 100 young adults. Short form of the original Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SSRQ; Carey, Neal, & Collins, 2004) and Psychological Well-Being scale (Ryff & Keyes, 1995) were used to fulfill the purpose of the study. Pearson correlation analyses showed that self-regulation capacity positively associated with psychological well-being and its dimension; personal growth, positive relations with others, purpose in life and self-acceptance and negatively associated with autonomy and environmental mastery. As a positive construct implication of self-regulation to maintain optimal mental health was discussed.

Keywords


Self-Regulation, Psychological Well-Being, Young Adults.

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