{"id":1569,"date":"2025-03-17T18:18:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T18:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/?page_id=1569"},"modified":"2025-03-17T18:18:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T18:18:41","slug":"transcript-shanker-defining-self-regulation-and-self-control","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/transcript-shanker-defining-self-regulation-and-self-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript Shanker \u2013 defining self-regulation and self-control"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the questions that we get asked most frequently is, \u201cWhat exactly is self-regulation?\u201d So we actually did a study on this and it turns out that there are 447 different definitions of self-regulation, yes and it\u2019s no wonder that people are confused.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In simplest terms what that refers to is how we manage stress, how we regulate the amount of energy and tension that we have and then recover from stress. There are all these hundreds of different definitions of self-regulation and what\u2019s very interesting about them is how many of them are actually about self-control, not about self-regulation. It\u2019s very easy for parents especially to be confused- what\u2019s the difference between them? There\u2019s a very simple guideline for how you\u2019d distinguish between them, at least conceptually, and that is self-control is about inhibiting an impulse. But self-regulation is really about addressing and removing or preventing those impulses in the first place. The impulses themselves are invariably a result of heightened stress and so what we\u2019re working on when we address self-regulation in a child is the various kinds of stresses that lead that child to become highly impulsive or to need to exercise self-control.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what we\u2019ve learned from doing this over the years is that self-regulation is what makes self-control possible or in most cases unnecessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions that we get asked most frequently is, \u201cWhat exactly is self-regulation?\u201d So we actually did a study on this and it turns out that there are 447 different definitions of self-regulation, yes and it\u2019s no wonder that people are confused.&nbsp; In simplest terms what that refers to is how we manage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1569","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1569\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}