Emotion regulation and self-control: Implications for health behaviors and wellbeing

Catharine Evers*

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRoutledge International Handbook of Self-Control in Health and Well-Being
EditorsDenise de Ridder, Marieke Adriaanse, Kentaro Fujita
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter25
Pages317-329
Number of pages13
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)9781315648576
ISBN (Print)9781138123861
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Nov 2017

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 selection and editorial matter, Denise de Ridder, Marieke Adriaanse, Kentaro Fujita.

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