Bertrams, Alexander (2021). The Cognitive Association Between Effortful Self-Control and Decreased Vitality. Frontiers in psychology, 12, p. 631914. Frontiers Research Foundation 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.631914
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According to the schema model of self-control, individuals' self-control efforts activate the fatigue/decreased vitality schema. A precondition for this schema activation is that the cognitive concepts of self-control effort and decreased vitality are associated in individuals' minds. In the present two studies, the existence of such a cognitive association was tested. In Study 1, 133 school students from Switzerland read two similar stories in a random order. In one story, a fictitious individual engaged in effortful self-control, while in the other story, he/she did not. In Study 2, 251 online workers from the United States, per random assignment, received either a story describing an individual exerting self-control or a similar story describing an individual not exerting self-control. In both studies, the participants rated how vital the fictitious individuals felt at the time the story ended. As expected, in both studies, the fictitious individual exerting self-control was rated as feeling less vital compared to the one not exerting self-control. This finding is in line with the schema model of self-control, as it indicates that the concepts of self-control exertion and decreased vitality are related to each other in a cognitive associative structure. Additional results suggest that emotional valence and calmness are irrelevant in this association. Moreover, the self-control exertion-decreased vitality association was independent from the raters' own momentary feelings of self-control exertion, effort, and exhaustion.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Education > Educational Psychology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Bertrams, Alexander Gregor |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 370 Education |
ISSN: |
1664-1078 |
Publisher: |
Frontiers Research Foundation |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Andrea Stettler |
Date Deposited: |
25 Jun 2021 16:39 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:51 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3389/fpsyg.2021.631914 |
PubMed ID: |
33995184 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
effort ego depletion energy fatigue schema model of self-control self-control self-regulation subjective vitality |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/157151 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/157151 |
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