Handbook of Personality and Self-Regulation

The Handbook of Personality and Self-Regulation integrates scholarly research on self-regulation in the personality, developmental, and social psychology traditions for a broad audience of social and behavioral scientists interested in the processes by which people control, or fail to control, their own behavior.The book examines self-regulation as it influences and is influenced by basic personality processes in normal adults.It offers 21 original contributions from an internationally respected group of scholars in the fields of personality and self-regulation. Explores the causes and consequences of inadequate self-regulation and the means by which self-regulation might be improved Integrates empirical findings on basic personality traits with findings inspired by emerging models of self-regulation.