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Losing Control - How and Why People Fail at Self-Regulation (Hardcover)
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Losing Control - How and Why People Fail at Self-Regulation (Hardcover)
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Self-regulation refers to the self's ability to control its own
thoughts, emotions, and actions. Through self-regulation, we
consciously control how much we eat, whether we give in to impulse,
task performance, obsessive thoughts, and even the extent to which
we allow ourselves recognition of our emotions. This work provides
a synthesis and overview of recent and long-standing research
findings of what is known of the successes and failures of
self-regulation.
People the world over suffer from the inability to control their
finances, their weight, their emotions, their craving for drugs,
their sexual impulses, and more. The United States in particular is
regarded by some observers as a society addicted to addiction.
Therapy and support groups have proliferated not only for
alcoholics and drug abusers but for all kinds of impulse control,
from gambling to eating chocolate. Common to all of these disorders
is a failure of self-regulation, otherwise known as
"self-control."
The consequences of these self-control problems go beyond
individuals to affect family members and society at large. In
Losing Control, the authors provide a single reference source with
comprehensive information on general patterns of self-regulation
failure across contexts, research findings on specific self-control
disorders, and commentary on the clinical and social aspects of
self-regulation failure. Self-control is discussed in relation to
what the "self" is, and the cognitive, motivational, and emotional
factors that impinge on one's ability to control one's "self."
Key Features
* Discusses the importance of the concept of self-regulation to
general issues of autonomy and identity
* Encompasses self-control of thoughts, feelings, and actions
* Contains a special section on the control of impulses and
appetites
* First book to integrate recent research into a broad overview of
the area
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