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Emotion regulation:            

The capacity to tolerate and manage the emotions you have and to control their intensity, course, and expression

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Aggression regulation:            

The ability to withhold aggressive impulses towards others

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Effortful control:            

The ability to focus concentration and direct impulses through conscious effort

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Frustration tolerance:            

The capacity to cope with disappointments and setbacks

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Self respect:         

The capacity to feel that you are worthy, and to know that others or yourself have no right to harm you physically or emotionally

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Stable self image:            

To experience an inner sense of continuity/sameness of self across time and situations

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Self-reflexive functioning:         

The capacity to understand the possible meanings of and causal connections between internal and external experiences, as well as the ability to identify reasons for things happening within yourself rather than constantly trying to find answers in the world outside

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Enjoyment:       

The capacity to enjoy without feeling guilty

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Purposefulness:

The capacity to make life meaningful by creating the means as well as the opportunities for achievement and organising time in line with one’s goals

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Responsible industry:            

The capacity to set realistic goals, and to achieve these through effective and responsible constructive actions

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Trustworthiness:            

That one has internalized the values and norms of social collaboration and is normally able to behave in accordance to these

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Intimacy:            

The ability to share sensitive personal experiences with other people

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Enduring relationships:    

The capacity to love and feel loved in order to form and maintain long-term, intimate relationships; also referred to as the capacity for “healthy attachment”

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Feeling recognized:            

The experience that others understand what you feel and believe

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Co-operation:      

The ability to work constructively with others, to be aware of needs and ideas and others, and to establish mutual goals

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Respect:              

The capacity to value someone’s individual needs and personal identity

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Higher order domain

Facet  

Self control

Emotion regulation

Effortful control

Identity integration 

Self respect

Stable self-image

Self-reflexive functioning

Enjoyment

Purposefulness

Responsibility 

Responsible industry

Trustworthiness

Relational functioning

Intimacy

Enduring relationships

Feeling recognized

Social concordance 

Aggression regulation

Frustration tolerance

Cooperation

Respect

Domain

Description  

Self control

The capacity to tolerate, use and control one’s own emotions and impulses

Identity integration 

Coherence of identity; the ability to see oneself and one’s own life as stable, integrated and purposive

Responsibility 

The capacity to set realistic goals and to achieve these goals in line with the expectations you have generated in others

Relational functioning

The capacity to genuinely care about others as well as feeling cared about them, to be able to communicate personal experiences, and to hear and engage with the experiences of others often but not necessarily in the context of a long-term, intimate relationship

Social concordance 

The ability to value someone’s identity, withhold aggressive impulses towards others and to work together with others