Jemonster

ABSTRACT

A review of self-regulation examined basic volitional factors of goal setting, self-monitoring, activation and use of goals, discrepancy detection and implementation, self-evaluation, self-consequation, self-efficacy, meta-skills, boundary conditions, and self-regulation failure that revealed self-monitoring as fundamental to self-regulation. There is no consensus in the literature concerning definitions, methods and procedures of self-monitoring that may cause validity and reliability issues in research. It was indicated that future research should explore the various phenomenological aspects of psychosomatic function if methodological approaches to self-monitoring are to be more clearly defined.

Introduction

Recent research has begun exploring the complex process of self-regulation, an important feature in cognitive and somatic behavior therapies. Many interrelating factors appear to govern self-regulation, with no single factor responsible for its success or failure. The ability to self-regulate may have advantages in the course of an individual's mental life, especially within the sporting context. For example, Vealey, Hayashi, Garner-Holman, and Giacobbi (1998) developed a questionnaire over a series of experimental trials that examined sources of sport confidence in 335 college athletes. Nine sources of sport confidence were identified among the athletes that were split into three broad domains (achievement, self-regulation and climate). The athletes rated, first, achievement (includes self-mastery and demonstration of ability), second, self-regulation (includes physical/mental preparation and physical presentation), and third, climate (includes social support, coaches' leadership, vicarious experience, environmental comfort and situational favourableness) in order of perceived priority as the most important sources of improving sport confidence.

  Furthermore, the ability to individually self-monitor (Kim, 1999), and self-monitor within a team...