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Effortful control is defined as a child's ability to utilize attentional resources and to inhibit behavioral responses in order to regulate emotions and related behaviors (Rothbart, Ahadi, & Hershey, 1994).
An important dimension of temperament is effortful control, which has been defined by Rothbart as "the ability to inhibit a dominant response to perform a subdominant response" (p. 137)1 or the “efficiency of executive attention, including the ability to inhibit a dominant response and/or to activate a subdominant response, to plan, and to detect errors.”1,2 Effortful control includes the abilities to voluntarily manage attention (attentional regulation) and inhibit (inhibitory control) or activate (activational control) behaviour as needed to adapt, especially when the child does not particularly want to do so.
Effortful control (EC) is a dimension of temperament related to the self-regulation of emotional reactivity and behaviour.1 EC allows increased control over action and adjustment to situational demands in a flexible and willful manner. The concept includes aspects related to attention, including the ability to voluntarily move, focus and sustain attention as needed, and behavioural regulation, which includes both inhibitory control of action (not eating a candy) as well as activation control (eating a fruit instead).

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Autocontrol? Doar ca self-restraint e tot autocontrol...