The goal of this course is to familiarize students with fundamental issues in the area of self- regulation, motivation, and emotion. Topics include basic self-regulatory processes such as goal setting and goal striving, self-control, and self-knowledge and facilitating and disruptive factors that influence self-regulatory processes, such as motivation, emotion (regulation), habits and automatic influences. Strategies for improving self-regulation will also be discussed. Importantly, all these topics are focused on health and health-related behavior. The course consists of lectures (knowledge) and tutorials with assignments (knowledge and skills) that together serve as preparation for the exam.
After succeeding this course students should be able to:
- Describe and explain the basic self-regulation theories and the accompanying key concepts.
- Apply these theories in order to explain (un)healthy behavior.
- Describe factors that either stimulate or disrupt self-regulation.
- Apply and interpret self-regulation measures
- Write an introduction about self-regulation in accordance with the academic standards
The first three goals will be assessed in a written exam at the end of the course testing students' knowledge and understanding of the literature and lectures. The last two goals will be assessed with assignments during the tutorials.
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You absolutely enjoy delicious food but you also absolutely want a slim figure? You have a hang-over and you swear that you will never drink this much again, yet at the next party you drink too much anyhow? You want to quit smoking, you know all the disadvantages of this bad
habit, and still, you cannot get yourself to the point of actually stop smoking… All these topics
are related to self-regulation and self-control within the health domain.
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