ArticleJMIR mental health2022
Momentary Self-regulation: Scale Development and Preliminary Validation.
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- Greater perceived stress and lower self-regulation associated with substance use behaviors in a national sample of United States emergency medical service clinicians.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2026Article
- Dynamic bidirectional relationships between perceived stress and emotion regulation in emergency medical service clinicians.Npj mental health research · 2026Article
- A longitudinal observational study with ecological momentary assessment and deep learning to predict non-prescribed opioid use, treatment retention, and medication nonadherence among persons receiving medication treatment for opioid use disorder.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Observational
- Adherence to a digital therapeutic mediates the relationship between momentary self-regulation and health risk behaviors.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Differential Pathways of Risky Drinking via Coping Motives in College and Noncollege Young Adults.Addiction research & theory · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundSelf-regulation refers to a person's ability to manage their cognitive, emotional, and behavioral processes to achieve long-term goals. Most prior research has examined self-regulation at the individual level; however, individual-level assessments do not allow the examination of dynamic patterns of intraindividual variability in self-regulation and thus cannot aid in understanding potential malleable processes of self-regulation that may occur in response to the daily environment.
objectiveThis study aims to develop a brief, psychometrically sound momentary self-regulation scale that can be practically administered through participants' mobile devices at a momentary level.
methodsThis study was conducted in 2 phases. In the first phase, in a sample of 522 adults collected as part of a larger self-regulation project, we examined 23 previously validated assessments of self-regulation containing 594 items in total to evaluate the underlying structure of self-regulation via exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. We then selected 20 trait-level items to be carried forward to the second phase. In the second phase, we converted each item into a momentary question and piloted the momentary items in a sample of 53 adults over 14 days. Using the results from the momentary pilot study, we explored the psychometric properties of the items and assessed their underlying structure. We then proposed a set of subscale and total score calculations.
resultsIn the first phase, the selected individual-level items appeared to measure 4 factors of self-regulation. The factors identified were perseverance, sensation seeking, emotion regulation, and mindfulness. In the second phase of the ecological momentary assessment pilot, the selected items demonstrated strong construct validity as well as predictive validity for health risk behaviors.
conclusionsOur findings provide preliminary evidence for a 12-item momentary self-regulation scale comprising 4 subscales designed to capture self-regulatory dynamics at the momentary level.
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