Self‐Regulation Assessment and Intervention in Physical Health and Illness: A Review

L’autoregulation peut etre definie comme un processus d’orientation vers un objectif visant l’atteinte et le suivi de buts personnels. Dans cet article, on distingue trois phases dans ce processus: 1) le choix d’un objectif, l’organisation et la representation/interpretation; 2) la poursuite active du but; 3) l’atteinte et le suivi ou, au moment opportun, l’abandon du but. Ces trois phases servent de fil conducteur a ce texte. On presente pour chaque phase des outils d’evaluation et des interventions. L’article se termine par la description d’orientations pour de futures recherches concernant l’evaluation de l’autoregulation et les interventions, en retenant quinze principes d’intervention qui peuvent etre exploites comme regles generales pour la mise en œuvre d’interventions dans la prise en charge des maladies chroniques et le developpement d’une politique de sante. Self-regulation can be defined as a goal-guidance process aimed at the attainment and maintenance of personal goals. In this article three phases are distinguished in this process: (a) goal selection, setting and construal/representation; (b) active goal pursuit; and (c) goal attainment and maintenance or, when appropriate, goal disengagement. These phases are used as a structure for the present review. For each phase, assessment instruments and interventions are described. The article concludes with directions for future research concerning self-regulation assessment and interventions, including 15 intervention principles which can be used as rules of thumb for the development of interventions in chronic illness management and in health promotion.

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