ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Educational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1533725
This article is part of the Research TopicProtective vs Risk Factors for Stress and Psychological Well-being in Academic University ContextsView all 13 articles
Frontiers in Psychology Effect of Combined Regulation Behaviour Index (CRBI) on Regulatory Fatigue and Behavioural Adaptability (classical and reformulated) in the university context Authors
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- 1Department of Psychology. Shool of Education and Psychology. University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
- 2University of Las Americas, Boston, United States
- 3School of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
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Regulatory fatigue is a potential explanatory mechanism for dysfunctional regulatory behaviour, which would lead to poorly adaptive behaviour. Based on this premise, it was hypothesized that it would have a significant mediating effect between the combined regulation level (average internal-external regulation) and the students' adaptability. A total of 365 undergraduates completed, at three points in time, two standardized inventories during a fourmonth period. Under an ex post-facto design, linear, inferential and mediational analyses were carried out to verify these effects. The results showed that the combined regulation level was a significant predictor of fatigue and adaptability, as well as fatigue with respect to adaptability. This effect was corroborated at the inferential level. The most significant model showed the mediational value of fatigue between both, the regulation level, and adaptability, with special significance for the reformulated adaptability. The implications and limitations of the work are discussed. The relevant role of the combined level of regulation (personal and contextual) is noted, and above all, the relevance of regulatory fatigue as a mechanism that encourages the transition from regulated behaviour to non-regulated behaviour (deregulated) and, finally, to dysregulated behaviour.
Keywords: Combined Regulation Index, Regulatory Fatigue, Classical Adaptability, Reformulated Adaptability, college students
Received: 24 Nov 2024; Accepted: 07 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Jesus de la Fuente, Department of Psychology. Shool of Education and Psychology. University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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