ReviewAn integrative model of control: Implications for understanding emotion regulation and dysregulation in childhood anxiety
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Does ‘control’ mean the same thing across theories?
Chorpita and Barlow (1998) in their comprehensive review of the research literature examined child performance tasks and experimental manipulations of control to develop their theory that control is causally linked to the development of anxiety problems. Our focus in this review, however, is mainly on studies that have employed child self-reports. By focusing on child self-ratings the nuances involved in the various conceptualizations of control across the theories is most apparent and child
An integrative model of control
Examination of the definitions of control and the research across the theories of locus of control, learned helplessness and attributional style, self-efficacy, and perceived control suggests that each theory may imply different associations with childhood anxiety and its regulation/dysregulation. Because of the conceptual distinctions and potential for differential associations between anxiety and control we suggest that an integrative-multifaceted approach to control may help advance
Acknowledgment
The writing of this paper was supported in part by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (MH067572) awarded to Carl F. Weems.
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