Self-Regulation in Adolescence

Gabriele Oettingen is a Professor of Psychology at New York University and the University of Hamburg. She is the author of Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation (2014). Peter M. Gollwitzer is a Professor of Psychology at New York University and the University of Konstanz. He is the coeditor, with Gottfried Seebass and Michael Schmitz, of Acting Intentionally and its Limits: Individuals, Groups, Institutions (2013).

• Part I. Concepts and Processes of Self-Regulation: 1. Self-regulation: principles and tools Gabriele Oettingen and Peter M. Gollwitzer; 2. Expectancies, values, identities, and self-regulation Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Jennifer A. Fredricks and Peter Baay; 3. Self-regulation: conceptual issues, and relations to developmental outcomes in childhood and adolescence Nancy Eisenberg; 4. Effortful control in adolescence: individual differences within a unique developmental window Koraly Pérez-Edgar; Part II. Historical and Biological Influences: 5. Historical perspectives on self-regulation in adolescence Joseph F. Kett; 6. Adolescence: biology, epidemiology, and process considerations Sir Michael Rutter; 7. Emotion regulation and primate sociality Frans B. M. de Waal; Part III. Neural Mechanisms: 8. The neural underpinnings of adolescent risk-taking: the roles of reward-seeking, impulse control, and peers Laurence Steinberg; 9. Development of the social brain in adolescence Sarah-Jayne Blakemore; 10. The role of reflection in promoting adolescent self-regulation Philip David Zelazo and Sabine Doebel; Part IV. Peer and Parent Relationships: 11. Goals and goal pursuit in the context of adolescent-parent relationships Judith G. Smetana; 12. Self-regulation and adolescent substance use Laurie Chassin; 13. The cultural context of adolescent self-regulation Alice Schlegel; Part V. Interventions: 14. Rumination and self-regulation in adolescence Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Kirsten Gilbert and Lori M. Hilt; 15. Promoting youth self-regulation through psychotherapy: redesigning treatments to fit complex youth in clinical care John R. Weisz; 16. Parent-based interventions to reduce adolescent problem behaviors: new directions for self-regulation approaches James Jaccard and Nicole Levitz.

'Bringing together leading scholars from the several disciplines needed to advance understanding of how self-regulation processes enable individuals to contribute to their positive behavior and health, both during adolescence and the entire life span, Professors Oettingen and Gollwitzer have created a work that uniquely advances theory, research, and application. Self-Regulation in Adolescence is required reading for scholars and practitioners interested in describing, explaining, and optimizing the role of self-regulation in positive youth development.' Richard M. Lerner, Tufts University