Although everyday life is often demanding, it remains unclear how demanding conditions
impact self‐regulation. Some theories suggest that demanding conditions impair self …

People differ in how readily they enact their intentions. Some people manage to enact very
difficult intentions (eg, writing a book or starting a business) under demanding …

Personality variables contribute to the development of passion for studies leading
undergraduates to different affective experiences. Academic hardiness, an affective …

This research involves three studies refining and validating the Action Control Scale for
Adolescents (ACS-t), measuring failure-related action control (AOF) and prospective action …

Background Embitterment has been described as the emotion generated by an event
experienced as unjust. Although clinicians working in occupational health services readily …

The aim of the study was to investigate the relationships of the self-regulatory dispositions of
mindfulness and action control with attentional bias towards emotional information in young …

Respecting and valuing an individual's existential dignity forms the basis of nursing and
medical practice and of nursing care. The objective of the study was to determine the …

Introduction. The present study examined the effect of action control (ie, disengagement,
initiative, and persistence) and dispositional hope (ie, pathways thought, and agency …

Abstract The Action Control Scale (ACS-90) measures action–state orientation (ASO), which
describes individual differences in volitional processes such as goal initiation and …

Common sense holds that people often fail to achieve their goals because they fail to keep
their goals in mind. In this chapter, however, we suggest that, for the some people, the …