self-regulation skills

Summit; The Business of Public Sector Procurement - Vol. 9 Nbr. 6, October 2006

Emotional Intelligence Part Ii

Ideally, EI training will build upon other professional development opportunities offered to purchasing staff such as general negotiation techniques. One of the primary uses for EI skills is in negotiation and EI training is a natural next step to enhance critical skills already acquired through negotiation training. For instance, negotiation training teaches trainees to focus on issues rather than the individuals with whom they are negotiating; EI training shows the advantage of addressing t...

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice - Vol. 49 Nbr. 4, October 2007

The risk-need-responsivity model of assessment and human service in prevention and corrections: crime-prevention jurisprudence.

... Predicting or influencing the impact of this type of self-regulation on criminal activity requires two key sets of ...... In order to understand the sources of cognitions, self-control skills, and association patterns favourable to crime, ...

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice - Vol. 45 Nbr. 3, July 2003

Crime and destiny: patterns in serious offenders' mortality rates.

... random events triggered by individuals lacking self-regulation. Thus, the simple bivariate correlation between ...... Low self-control offenders may well be protected from such occupational hazards if weak self-regulation prevents them, in the first place, from ...

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice - Vol. 50 Nbr. 4, July 2008

Childhood predictors of adult criminality: a meta-analysis drawn from the prospective longitudinal literature.

... of children to develop age-appropriate social skills (Lacourse, Cote, Nagin, Vitaro, Brendgen, and ......, social skills), developmental concerns (e.g., speech and motor ...... Silva 1999 Staying in school protects boys with poor self-regulation in childhood from later crime: A longitudinal ...

University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review - Vol. 65 Nbr. 2, March 2007

From Laissez-Faire to fair play: workplace violence & psychological harassment.

... Second, preventative measures, in the form of educational awareness training and skills development are essential components to prevent ...... Formal avenues of legal recourse have been slow to develop, which is reflective of laissez-faire market philosophies of self-regulation and low state interference in the field of ...

Winnipeg Free Press - August 14, 2009

Heritage Razed for Art?

We are about to see a case, however, which might suggest that self-regulation is not always good enough. There is, at the Fort Garry campus of the University of Manitoba, a small building of some significance now facing imminent demolition. The so-called "Practice House" built in 1939 has, in recent years, been the home of the university's alumni association, but it has a more interesting history. As the University's Bulletin recently pointed out, this unique training phenomenon was immortali...

Canadian Psychology - Vol. 46 Nbr. 2, May 2005

Learning About Learning Disabilities, Third Edition

Chapter 1 focuses on the status of the field of learning disabilities, provides a historical perspective of the events in the field, discusses the role of psychological processes in the disorder, and presents current and future issues in the field. This chapter provides an excellent review of the literature in this area and provides more detail on this topic than a book designed for undergraduate students. The research presented would provide many pivotal points on which to build classroom di...

Winnipeg Free Press - November 07, 2006

Helping the Helpless

Someday, the services of Agape Table should be taken over by a more encompassing service that mentors people who need breakfast. We are compassionate people. We mean well, and we are capable of learning about human development and failures in development. We have grown in understanding of physical problems. We grow every year in better ways to accommodate them: Can you remember when we did not have curb cuts in sidewalks for easier passage by those who need it? We are now beginning to underst...

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - Vol. 38 Nbr. 3, July 2006

Self-Talk and Emotional Intelligence in University Students

While there has been some controversy in the past over the utility of the emotional intelligence construct, whether measured as a performance-based ability (e.g., Roberts, Zeidner, & Matthews, 2001) or as linked to personality traits (e.g., Petrides & Furnham, 2000), it remains of interest in the scholarly community. Researchers have continued to strengthen the psychometric properties of the currently available measures, and studies using the construct continue to be prevalent (e.g., ...