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Resilience and Self-Control Impairment

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Handbook of Resilience in Children

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Self-control has been a pervasive idea in developmental psychology. At a neurocognitive level, the organism’s control (or lack of it) over its own responsiveness to stimuli has been regarded as a central topic in attention/executive function research and attention deficit (e.g., Taylor, 1995). Behavioral control is a more complex idea: clearly, a planned and rule-governed organization of activity can have many advantages and has arguably been a cru-cial acquisition in the evolution of man. Emotional control relates to the idea that it is adaptive to moderate the immediate affective reaction and to respond in a willed rather than a passionate fashion.

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Chen, W., Taylor, E. (2005). Resilience and Self-Control Impairment. In: Goldstein, S., Brooks, R.B. (eds) Handbook of Resilience in Children. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48572-9_16

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