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3 - Self-Regulation: Conceptual Issues and Relations to Developmental Outcomes in Childhood and Adolescence

from Part I - Concepts and Processes of Self-Regulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2015

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Nancy Eisenberg
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Gabriele Oettingen  and
Peter M. Gollwitzer
Gabriele Oettingen
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New York University
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Nancy Eisenberg, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University.

Writing of this chapter was partially supported by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Correspondence should be addressed to Nancy Eisenberg, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1104. E-mail: Nancy.eisenberg@asu.edu

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Self-Regulation in Adolescence , pp. 57 - 77
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