The contribution of Executive Functions to Self-regulation

摘要

The term SR has been linked to concepts such as executive functions (EF), and self-control which many times have been overlapped. This article aims to establish a clear conceptual distinction between the term of SR and constructs associated with it, analyzing the relationship between SR and EF and describing the contribution made by them in the performance spaces of SR: cognition, behavior and emotion. This was done through a review of studies that have addressed these relationships. For this, a literature search was performed on PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, PubMed and ScienceDirect with general English terms: selfregulation, self-control, executive functions, working memory, cognitive flexibility, inhibition, emotion regulation, reading and math and children combined with the Boolean operator “AND”. The results of this search allowed in first place establish conceptual distinctions between the terms and secondly, to list and identify some of the major contributions of the EF and self-regulation to behavior, cognition and emotion