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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Self control

Overview

  • Influence: Self control
  • Domain: Student
  • Sub-Domain: Self
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
  • Influence Definition: Self-control relates to the capacity to alter or override dominant or impulsive response tendencies and to regulate behavior, thoughts, and emotions in order to achieve long term goals.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 4
  • Number of studies: 126
  • Number of students: 89,853
  • Number of effects: 157
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.66
  • Robustness index: 3

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Conference paper Naso, Siler, Hougland, Lance, Maws & Bridgett USA A Meta-Analysis of Effortful Control and Child Outcomes Part I: Social Competence, Academic Competence, and Achievement 2011 Effortful control 58 8,394 89 0.68
Book de Ridder, Lensvelt-Mulders, Finkenauer, Stok, & Baumeister Netherlands Taking Stock of Self-Control: A Meta-Analysis of How Trait Self-Control Relates to a Wide Range of Behaviors 2018 Self control 5 1,546 5 0.77
Dissertation Taylor Canada The differential effects of academic motivation types on school achievement and persistence 2012 Relative autonomy 6 0 6 0.39
European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education Nasvytiene & Lazdauskas, Lithuania Temperament and academic achievement in children: A meta-analysis. 2021 Effortful control 57 79,913 57 0.65
TOTAL/AVERAGE 126 89,853 157 0.62
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