self-regulatory.

Relating to managing one's own behavior, attention, or internal processes.

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Words that belong together

• self-regulatory skills
• self-regulatory process

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The program developed self-regulatory skills through guided practice.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: character, behavior. Commonness: moderately common.