Evidence-Based Practices to Reduce Racial Inequity in School Discipline
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
Expert Notes AvailableView expert commentary on strengths and cautions for this instrument
Strengths
Validated with U.S. college students to measure everyday self-regulation failures. Used to examine whether self-regulation relates to willpower beliefs and college GPA.
Cautions
Limited validation beyond U.S. college students; includes behaviors beyond academic self-regulation, such as eating, spending, and emotion control.
The Self-Regulatory Failures Behaviors Scale is a self-report measure that assesses behaviors associated with difficulty regulating thoughts, feelings, or actions in everyday life. It focuses on self-regulation failures, such as difficulty maintaining intended behaviors or following through on goals.
The scale can be used in education research to examine individual differences in self-regulation and how they relate to academic behaviors and outcomes. Job and colleagues (2015) used measures of self-regulatory failures alongside beliefs about willpower to examine relationships with students’ everyday self-regulation and grades. The study included college students and adults, so evidence for use with elementary or secondary students is limited.
Organization
Topic
Collection Category(ies)
Content
Grades
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade,
Post secondary
Languages
English
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
38 items
Access and Use
Open Access
No
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Reliability
Procrastination (.78-.87);
unhealthy food (.67-.74);
poor time management (.62-.76);
excess spending (.80-.91);
emotion-regulation failure (.76-.87);
forecasted self-regulatory demands (.66-.72)
Item Type
Likert
