Overall, prior studies with both younger and older students have provided evidence that
students’ regulation of motivation is related positively to the more cognitive and metacognitive
aspects of students’ self-regulated learning. For instance, across five different studies students’
reported use of metacognitive strategies was related significantly to each of the regulation of
motivation strategies described here. The strength of these correlations was generally high with
most exceeding .40 (see Table 4). The pattern of relations between these regulation of
motivation strategies and students’ reported use of cognitive strategies was similar. Again, the
strength of most of these relations exceeded .40. These findings indicate that students’ who
report using cognitive and metacognitive strategies also tend to report using regulation of
motivation strategies.