Abstract
This chapter provides a broad overview of the interaction between emotion regulation and self-control, and the implications of this interaction for health behavior and wellbeing. Some forms of emotion regulation are highly effective and result in rather successful self-regulation. Other forms of emotion regulation are doomed to fail at the expense of successful self-regulation. The chapter explores a short introduction on what constitutes self-regulation and self-control and discusses why emotions trigger emotion regulation and what emotion regulation represents. Subsequently, it describes how the domains of self-regulation, and more specifically self-control and emotion regulation, relate to each other within the topic of health behavior and wellbeing. The chapter explains a paradigm case of how emotion regulation can impact the health-related behavior of eating. Emotions and eating are closely connected, as is illustrated by the phenomenon of ‘emotional eating’, which is eating in response to negative emotions rather than hunger.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Routledge International Handbook of Self-Control in Health and Well-Being |
Editors | Denise de Ridder, Marieke Adriaanse, Kentaro Fujita |
Publisher | Routledge |
Chapter | 25 |
Pages | 317-329 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315648576 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781138123861 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2 Nov 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018 selection and editorial matter, Denise de Ridder, Marieke Adriaanse, Kentaro Fujita.