The self-regulation construct is especially significant to the forensic psychiatric practice, considering its associations with clinical and criminal outcomes and recidivism.
"Emotional, cognitive and behavioural self-regulation in forensic psychiatric patients: changes over time and associations with childhood trauma, identity and personality pathology" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1068316X.2022.2044813 is a recent study that dug deeper into this.
The authors investigated changes in emotional, behavioural and cognitive self-regulation. They also examined "the associations between these three elements of self-regulation and childhood trauma, identity dysfunction and personality pathology."
The findings (that should be taken with caution due to the sample size restrictions - N = 94) suggest short-term changes are unlikely and indicate the relative importance of emotional and behavioural regulation for clinical practice.
This is very interesting research, it collided with my own BSc since it touches on parental authoritarian styles. It's fascinating that this may have an effect on self-regulation. This seems to bridge a gap between childhood trauma, self-regulation and future problems with impulsivity and crime.
I also found the distinctions between regulatory models informative, that there would be a separate mechanism for behaviour, emotion and cognitive self-regulation is not immediately appreciable. I wonder how a lack of self-regulation in any one of these would impact the future type of crime committed.
I suppose direct interventions and child clinical therapy would focus on these specific attributes.
Great share thanks