Self-control In Order Research Articles

Development of the Structural Model of Adolescent's Risk Behavior

In this study the fitness of a path model for the relationship among biological risk disposition, sociocultural risk factors, self-control, parent-adolescent communication, and risk behavior in adolescents was examined. The participants were 387 adolescents. The data were analyzed with the PASW 18.0 and AMOS 18.0 programs. Sociocultural risk factors, self-control, and parent-adolescent communication showed a direct effect on risk behavior for adolescents, while biological risk disposition and sociocultural risk factor showed an indirect effect on risk behavior for adolescents. The modified path model of adolescents' risk behavior was showed a good fit with the model (χ2/df=2.37, GFI=.95, AGFI=.92, RMSEA=.06 [.05<RMSEA<.07], NNFI=.95, CFI=.97). These results suggest that adolescents' risk behavior can be decreased by reducing biological risk disposition and sociocultural risk factor, and increasing parent-adolescent communication and self-control. Thus there is a need to design intervention programs that emphasizes reducing biological risk disposition and sociocultural risk factor and increasing parent-adolescent communication and self-control in order to decrease adolescents' risk behavior.

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Burnout is particularly frequent contact with others members of the organization Chronic stress accumulated during his career caused by physical, emotional and mental state could be described as exhaustion. Perceived stress of workers, they feel the stress to overcome the limitations. Eventually they will be experience burnout. In this study, the burnout of female hotel chef job satisfaction Demonstrate the impact analysis. Exhausting work to alleviate the burden of providing evidence. Increase job satisfaction measures should provide basic data for. This study is significant. Judging by results Cook a woman perform exhausting to actually experience the emotions Been the norm in the organization is not required to express emotions through Dysfunction, such as emotional dissonance is experienced. Burnout of female chefs in the job satisfaction and is known for Reduce or prevent burnout of female chefs and self-control in order to increase job satisfaction and security can grow a variety of programs and institutions are needed.

Retirement savings from the behavioural perspective

The aim of this article is to point at main implications stemming from behavioural economics for retirement savings. The author presents main models of choice relevant to the intertemporal choice developed by economical psychologists (prospect theory, hyperbolic discount function, system of mental accounts). These models provide a basis for a comparison of behavioural models of choice with fundamental assumptions of the rational representative agent, essential for consumption smoothing models. There is room for doubt whether real individuals are rational, patient and able enough to maintain self-control in order to fulfil the requirements of consumption smoothing models. This comparison allows the author to derive some strict implications for the governmental policy directed to increase retirement savings such as social pensions or optional retirement savings programs which can be perceived as self-commitment devices helpful as devices for maintaining people’s self-control.

Evaluation and Self-Control

In “Free Agency,” Gary Watson distinguished two aspects of wanting something, namely, to evaluate it as good, and to be motivated to pursue it. In the same paper, he also paid attention to the distinction between satisfying a desire and getting rid of a desire. In the introductory part of this essay, I will present a characterization of the phenomenon of weakness of will that depends on the distinction between evaluation and motivation. In the main part, I will examine the role that the distinction between satisfying a desire and getting rid of it can play in circumstances where an agent exercises techniques of self-control in order to avoid succumbing to weak-willed action. The aim of this essay is to show that the evaluational judgment of an agent can be efficacious in important ways in leading the agent to action.

The use of a learning station to increase self-control for homework completion.

The use of a Learning Station to improve student's self-control in order to complete homework is described. The Learning Station contains components to alleviate boredom and foster self-focus leading to increased self-control. Students are stimulated through color, music, and movement and a mirror is used to increase self-focus. The Use of a Learning Station to Increase Self-Control for Homework Completion The recent reform movement in education has seemed to trigger an increased use of homework (Bryan, Nelson, & Mathur, 1995; Cooper & Nye, 1994). There are, however, a large number of children who fail to complete their homework and many others who complete homework with low rates of accuracy. From the students' perspective specific assignments go unfinished, because homework is either too difficult or too boring (Bryan, Nelson, & Mathur, 1995). >From the teacher's perspective students do not have the self-control needed to complete an assignment (Etzioni, 1984). Self-Control Skinner (1953) characterizes self-control as a two-response phenomenon--the response to be controlled and the response(s) emitted to control the rate of the target behavior. A person must control his or her own actions in order to produce the desired result. This takes different amounts of effort for different tasks. Self-control is considered to be a degree and not just an all-or-none phenomenon (Kazdin, 2001). Self-control techniques extend beyond behavior modification procedures to events that are not observable or not always readily observed. This elicits another group of problems (thoughts, images, fantasies, hallucinations, and dreams) that are not publicly observable (Kazdin, 2001). Self-control requires an individual to focus his or her attention to aspects of the self. Carver and Scheier (1981) reported the extent that attention is directed outward to the environment, self-focus is decreased. These researchers have theorized and reviewed evidence indicating that self-control requires an individual to focus his or her attention to aspects of the self (e.g., thoughts, feelings, physiological states, attitudes, values, previously learned strategies, and behavior). With decreased self-focus self-control becomes unachievable. They found that a mirror would direct a person's attention away from external stimuli allowing someone to better control their responses. Boredom Boredom is the other contributory factor, especially for older children in middle and high school. For example, significantly more 7th-9th graders (44%) reported boredom during homework than 5th-6th graders (35%) (Bryan & Nelson, 1994). If students perceive their homework will be boring they will complain and find other more interesting things to do (Bryan & Nelson, 1994). To address problems of boredom, students must have the self-control skills necessary to organize and sustain attention to their independent assignments. One way to get students to increase their self-control in order to begin and complete their homework is to make it more stimulating to decrease the boredom. The optimal stimulation theory states all living organisms have a physiological need for stimulation (Berlyne, 1960), which they can achieve through changing their activity level. Children are more likely to seek additional stimulation by talking, moving, touching things, and looking around at changes in their environments. The Learning Station The Learning Station (Hall & Zentall, 2000) is a freestanding three-sided panel. Each panel measures 40 cm. square and was covered with emerald green contact paper. The left panel contains a turquoise pocket that contains log sheets and a purple pocket that holds activity choice cards. There is a square mirror on the middle panel held. The right panel contains a yellow pocket for completed log sheets, a royal blue pocket for pencils, and a red pocket that stores an audiotape. …

The union soldier in battle: enduring the ordeal of combat

With its relentless bloodshed, devastating firepower, and large-scale battles often fought on impossible terrain, the Civil War was a terrifying experience for a volunteer army. Yet, as Earl Hess shows, Union soldiers found the wherewithal to endure such terrors for four long years and emerge victorious. A vivid reminder that the business of war is killing, Hess's study plunges us into the hellish realms of Civil War combat - a horrific experience crowded with brutalizing sights, sounds, smells, and textures. Drawing extensively upon the letters, diaries, and memoirs of Northern soldiers, Hess reveals their deepest fears and shocks, and also their sources of inner strength. By identifying recurrent themes found in these accounts, Hess constructs a multilayered view of the many ways in which these men coped with the challenges of battle. He shows how they were bolstered by belief in God and country, or simply by their sense of duty; and how they came to rely on the support of their comrades; and how they learned to muster self-control in order to persevere from one battle to the next.

Building Internal Resources in Maladapative Pregnant Teens

The purpose of this project was to provide an educational program aimed at building internal resources of pregnant ado-lescents living in a residential setting. This short-term group program used experiential techniques to teach coping skills and non-impulsive reactions to stress. A secondary goal was to develop strategies for self-control in order to prevent them from becoming abusive parents in the future. Sixty-five girls, ages 12 years to 17 years, completed the program with a majority expressing positive gains in understanding their feelings and learning better means to resolve problems. The authors present the program and discuss the importance of using self-mastery and resource building as an initial part of primary prevention programs in child abuse.