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The development of adolescent self‐regulation: Reviewing the role of parent, peer, friend, and romantic relationships

Year: 2014
Type: review
Abstract: Self-regulation plays an important role in adolescent development, predicting success in multiple domains including school and social relationships. While researchers have paid increasing attention to the influence of parents on the development of adolescent self-regulation, we know little about the influence of peers and friends and even less about the influence of romantic partners on adolescent development of self-regulation. Extant studies examined a unidirectional model of self-regulation development rather than a bidirectional model of self-regulation development. Given that relationships and self-regulation develop in tandem, a model of bidirectional development between relationship context and adolescent self-regulation may be relevant. This review summarizes extant literature and proposes that in order to understand how adolescent behavioral and emotional self-regulation develops in the context of social relationships one must consider that each relationship builds upon previous relationships and that self-regulation and relationship context develop bidirectionally.
DOI: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.03.009
Institution: Virginia Tech
Language: English
Field: Psychology
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1972966033
FWCI: 1.864
Cites: 72
Cited by: 205
Related to: 10