Psychology of conscious self-regulation: from origins to modern research

Abstract

Background of research into the conscious self-regulation of a person is determined by the increasing uncertainty of existence — the main problem of humanity in a changing world. Actual Federal State Educational Standards guide teachers to create learning conditions conducive to not only personal and cognitive development but regulatory meta-results as well. 

Objective. The article has its purpose to consider the ideas of conscious self-regulation at the main stages of development of the scientific school of the self-regulation psychology in connection with creating and implementing various approaches to its study. 

Results. The study revealed the historical roots and identified the main stages of developing scientific ideas on the conscious self-regulation of a person. The author analyzed the main provisions, the subject and methods of the structural-functional, subjective, differential and resource approaches to the study of self-regulation corresponding to these stages. The article presents the general results providing verification of the described approaches. 

Conclusion. Conscious self-regulation is a controlling meta-resource including universal and special regulatory competencies that provide the conscious setting of goals and managing their achievement. Development of the regulatory competencies ensures successful achieving educational and professional results, as well as solution of a wide range of the life tasks, such as personality self-development, professional self-determination, maintaining psychological well-being and security in situations of uncertainty. It seems promising to develop ideas about the age-related formation of the general ability of self-regulation and its regulatory role in the social interaction of people in the modern conditions of increasing uncertainty in a changing world.

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