Temperament, Self-Regulation, and the Prototype/Willingness Model of Adolescent Health Risk Behavior

Self-Regulation in Health Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 97-117

  Gerrard, Meg ^a   Gibbons, Frederick X ^a   Stock, Michelle L ^b   Houlihan, Amy E ^b   Dykstra, Jennifer L ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Prototype; Risk behaviors; Self regulation; Social environment; Temperament

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889343415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713150.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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