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The Development of Self-Regulatory Mechanisms in the Course of Adolescence

Authors

BUREŠOVÁ Iva SCHORMOVÁ Jana

Year of publication 2016
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description The study is focused on the development of self-regulatory mechanisms based on the Baltes’s Life Span Developmental Theory. Its main research objective is to explore age differences in the use of self-regulatory mechanisms both in the academic and social domains and to describe the developmental trends in the utilization of the selection, optimization, compensation and loss-based selection mechanisms. Quantitative survey study was conducted on the sample of 1029 adolescents aged 11-20 years, 388 (37.7%) being males (mean age 15.9 years) and 641 (62,3%) being females (mean age 15.8 years). The mechanisms of optimization and compensation were found to be the most used self-regulatory mechanisms both in academic and social domain. In contrast, the mechanisms of selection and loss-based selection were generally much less utilized. When examining the impact of age on the use of self-regulatory mechanisms, we found that younger adolescents, compared to older adolescents, use significantly more the optimization mechanism in academic self-regulation and the compensation mechanism in the context of social self-regulation. When we divided the sample into three developmental period groups (younger, middle and older adolescents), we found the minimum use of self-regulatory mechanisms in the academic domain at the middle adolescence group, while the least utilization of the self-regulatory mechanisms in the context of social domain was found for respondents in late adolescence.
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