The Development of Self-Regulatory Mechanisms in the Course of Adolescence
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| 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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