Table 1.

Summary chart of the theoretical approaches toward Self-Regulation analyzed in this paper.

Theory	Year	Discipline	Object of study	Concepts/Paradigm	Motivation types	Applications	Limitations
1. Social Cognitive Theory	1997	Social psychology	Person, context	Self-efficacy, Self-regulation	Intrinsic, extrinsic	Social, educational, clinical	Micro-level analysis
2. Self-Determination Theory (SDT)	1985	Developmental psych/learning	Person, context	SR (Autonomy) vs. ER (Heteronomy)	Introjected motiv /a-motivation/external motivation	Wellbeing/ psychopathology autonomy-competence	Human development process, external regulation = external dys-motivation
3. Self-Regulated Learning Theory (SRL)	2001	Psychology of learning	Person, context	Self-Regulated Learning (SRL)	SR motivation	Learning process	Molar-level processes
4. SRL vs. ERL Theory (SRL vs. ERL)	2017	Instructional psychology	Person x context	SR vs. ER Learning Processes	SRL vs. ERL motivation, regulatory	Teaching and Learning Process	Molar-level processes
5. SR vs. ER Theory (SR vs. ER)	2021	Multiple spheres of psychology	Person x context	SR vs. ER in different contexts	SR x ER Factors	Different contexts	Micro- and molecular level process analysis