This project involves the set-up of a cohort of 1000 16-year old young adults that allows for studying self-regulation strategies over a period of 10 years and examine:

1. how the nature and frequency of self-regulation strategies develops during the critical period of young adulthood
2. to what extent the employment of self-regulation strategies is affected by environmental (e.g., neighborhood characteristics) and personal (e.g., life events, life transitions) factors
3. how such strategies affect health and wellbeing with an emphasis on critical choices about health and wellbeing (e.g., relationships).

Once the cohort has been established and is operational, a repository of data will be set up for which researchers can apply for secondary data analyses.