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The primary symptoms are impulsiveness, inattention, restlessness and poor self-regulation.
"The pursuit of self-esteem has short-term benefits but long-term costs," she has written, "ultimately diverting people from fulfilling their fundamental human needs for competence, relatedness and autonomy and leading to poor self-regulation and mental and physical health".
Poor self-regulation (i.e., inability to harness cognitive, emotional, motivational resources to achieve goals) is hypothesized to contribute to unhealthy behaviors across the lifespan.
For example, loneliness is associated with poor self-regulation which may lead to behavioral changes such as decreased exercise or changes in eating habits causing motor decline[ 24].
Overall, the findings suggest that proactive aggression is predicted by egocentric and disagreeable tendencies, whereas reactive aggression is predicted by poor self-regulation and the misattribution of blame to others.
However these findings are limited in that the measures are self-report and the findings are correlational, leaving the causal direction between level of goal/action identification and poor self-regulation unresolved.
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Prior research has shown that loneliness is associated with poorer self-regulation and may diminish the capacity for hedonic regulation.
This is consistent with the developmental literature, which primarily consists of behavioral data, indicating poorer self-regulation and related cognitive control skills in early childhood.
Infants in this high-risk group demonstrated poorer quality of movement, poorer self-regulation, increased signs of physiologic stress and abstinence, greater excitability and the need for additional techniques for handling the infant to change state.
Additionally, poor parenting skills have been linked with poorer self-regulation in children and adolescents [ 11], use of aggression [ 8], and severe behavioural problems that persist over time [ 12].
Significant disturbances were found in motor behaviour, tone, poorer self-regulation capacities, higher excitability scores [ 144], poorer orientation, lower tolerance of handling and more stress in preterm infants compared with term born infants [ 73].
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