Aerobic Exercise As a Potential Way to Improve Self-Control after Ego-Depletion in Healthy Female College Students

Zou, Zhiling; Yang, Liu; Xie, Jing; Huang, Xiaoling

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00501

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“…To date, limited research has investigated whether physical activity can improve self-control. Zou et al (2016) found that five weeks of aerobic exercise could be a potentially effective intervention to improve self-control in college students. The authors assert that through low-intensity but regular exercise, individuals can train and enhance their self-control.…”

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The Impact of Physical Activity on College Students’ Mobile Phone Dependence: the Mediating Role of Self-Control

Zhong

Wang

Zhang

2020

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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The mobile phone dependence of college students has gradually become a common and serious problem in society. Physical activity constitutes an important intervention to ameliorate this phenomenon. Previous studies have found that self-control can effectively reduce dependence on mobile phones. Therefore, it is necessary to consider whether physical activity can improve self-control and reduce college students' mobile phone dependence. In total, 418 college students were selected by means of convenience sampling. The Physical Activity Rating Scale (PARS-3), the College Student Phone Dependency Questionnaire, and the College Student Self-Control Scale (SCS) were distributed electronically. The results show that 1) physical activity has a negative effect on college students' mobile phone dependence, 2) physical activity plays a positive role in the self-control of college students and 3) self-control plays a mediating role in the effect of physical activity on mobile phone dependence. Physical activity is an effective intervention for decreasing an individual's mobile phone dependence, and self-control acts as a mediator to reduce mobile phone use. KeywordsPhysical activity . Self-control . Mobile phone dependence . Mediating effect . College students Mobile phones have become a significant component of our daily life due to their multifunctionality. The current statistics show that the number of mobile phone users in China has reached 1.59 billion (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China 2019). Mobile phones provide convenient methods for payment, shopping,

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The Impact of Physical Activity on College Students’ Mobile Phone Dependence: the Mediating Role of Self-Control

Zhong

Wang

Zhang

2020

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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“…One big advantage of such trainings may be the high domain-general capacity; training in self-control in one field may lead to broad improvements in other fields over time. For example, Zou et al (2016) have found that participating in 5 weeks of aerobic exercise (physical self-control) can increase self-control after ego-depletion in terms of pain tolerance. These pieces of evidence give reason to assume that adolescents low in self-control could benefit from exercise training, leading them to reduced problematic smartphone use.…”

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Sedentary Behavior and Problematic Smartphone Use in Chinese Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Self-Control

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This study investigated smartphone use characteristics including the purpose of smartphone use (i.e., leisure, learning, or work) and situational smartphone use (i.e., sitting, standing, or moving about) in Chinese adolescents. Moreover, it tested the moderating role of self-control in the link between sedentary behavior and problematic smartphone use. A total of 947 adolescents completed measures of the purpose of their smartphone use, situational smartphone use, sedentary behavior, self-control, time on smartphone, and smartphone addiction. Results showed that the majority of smartphone use was for leisure and learning, and 90.9% of adolescents reported typically sitting as they used the smartphone. Problematic smartphone use was positively correlated with sedentary behavior and negatively correlated with self-control. Moreover, the relationship between sedentary behavior and problematic smartphone use was moderated by self-control, in that the negative correlation was stronger for adolescents with low self-control and weaker for those with high self-control. These results contribute to the understanding of when sedentary behavior is associated with problematic smartphone use. Several limitations and implications are discussed in this study.

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“…For example, people require self-control capacity to override the impulse to engage in a deviant act in pursuit of a higher-order goal, such as the goal to align one’s behavior with social expectations of ethical conduct. Self-control capacity can be enhanced over time through regular successful exertions of self-control (Baumeister et al, 1998, 2007), and physical activity represents one major domain in life in which such self-control is required and can therefore be developed (Oaten & Cheng, 2006; Zou et al, 2016). We argue that physically fit individuals are, on average, less likely to experience ego depletion, and hence more able to override their impulses to engage in deviant behaviors.…”

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Fit to be good: Physical fitness is negatively associated with deviance.

Tai

Liu

Pitesa

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Journal of Applied Psychology

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While modern organizations generate economic value, they also produce negative externalities in terms of human physical fitness, such that workers globally are becoming physically unfit. In the current research, we focus on a significant but overlooked indirect cost that lack of physical fitness entails-deviance. In contrast to early (and methodologically limited) research in criminology, which suggests that physically fit people are more likely to behave in a deviant manner, we draw on self-control theory to suggest the opposite: That physically fit people are less likely to engage in deviance. In Study 1, we assembled a dataset on 50 metropolitan areas in the U.S. spanning a 9-year period, and found that physical fitness index of a metropolitan area is negatively related to deviance in that area in a concurrent as well as time-lagged fashion. We complemented this aggregate-level theory test with two studies testing the theory at the individual level. In Study 2, we collected multi-source data from 3,925 military recruits who underwent physical training and found that those who score higher on physical fitness test are less likely to engage in deviance. Study 3 conceptually replicated the effect with both concurrent and time-lagged models using a five-wave longitudinal design in a sample of employees working in service roles, and also found that ego depletion mediates the effect of physical activity on workplace deviance. We speculate on economic implications of the observed relationship between physical fitness and deviance and discuss its relevance for organizations and public policy.

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Aerobic Exercise As a Potential Way to Improve Self-Control after Ego-Depletion in Healthy Female College Students

Cited by 18 publications

References 60 publications

The Impact of Physical Activity on College Students’ Mobile Phone Dependence: the Mediating Role of Self-Control

The Impact of Physical Activity on College Students’ Mobile Phone Dependence: the Mediating Role of Self-Control

Sedentary Behavior and Problematic Smartphone Use in Chinese Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Self-Control

Fit to be good: Physical fitness is negatively associated with deviance.

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