Self-Regulation Failure: An Overview

Please be Honest and Provide Evidence: Deterrents of Deception in an Online Insurance Fraud Context

“…In turn, self‐awareness initiates an automatic comparison of the self against ethical and moral standards (Duval & Wicklund, 1972). Because people want to perceive themselves as moral (Aquino & Reed, 2002), self‐awareness makes someone behave accordingly to their moral standards and ethical goals (Baumeister & Heatherton, 1996), and avoiding being dishonest could be the result.…”

Employee Maintenance: Examining Employment Relationships from the Perspective of Managerial Leaders

“…According to self-regulation theory (Baumeister, 1998;Baumeister & Heatherton, 1996), self-regulatory abilities, and in particular, one's personal resources, influence a variety of human processes such as decision-making, impulse control, emotions, and motivation (Schmeichel & Baumeister, 2004). Demanding situations can deplete one's personal resources, and thereby impair one's ability to behave appropriately (Baumeister & Heatherton, 1996;Muraven & Baumeister, 2000). Perceptions that employees are high maintenance should trigger managers' sense making processes (Thau & Mitchell, 2010).…”

“…Both managers' impaired self-regulatory ability and negative affective reactions should result in increased levels of abusive supervision. According to self-regulation theory, self-regulatory strength is a renewable but limited capacity resource that can become temporarily depleted as a result of the exhaustion experienced when individuals face many simultaneous demands (Baumeister & Heatherton, 1996). Although little research has been performed regarding the consequences of impaired self-regulatory ability of managers per se, in one empirical study, Byrne et al (2014) drew from Wang et al's (2010) model of destructive leader behaviors to argue that resource depletion impairs managers' abilities to regulate affective reactions and behavior, which, in turn, should be linked to increased levels of abusive supervision.…”

“…These loss cycles result in the adoption of what can be defensive resource regulation strategies as individuals shift from trying to procure additional resources to protecting the resources they already have (Hobfoll, 1989(Hobfoll, , 2001). Likewise, selfregulation theory (Baumeister & Heatherton, 1996) posits that misregulation of self-control involves efforts to control oneself in a counterproductive fashion, so that desired results are not achieved. This can occur when individuals focus primarily on short-term affect regulation at the expense of the more enduring and substantive aspects of a situation (Baumeister & Heatherton, 1996).…”

“…Likewise, selfregulation theory (Baumeister & Heatherton, 1996) posits that misregulation of self-control involves efforts to control oneself in a counterproductive fashion, so that desired results are not achieved. This can occur when individuals focus primarily on short-term affect regulation at the expense of the more enduring and substantive aspects of a situation (Baumeister & Heatherton, 1996). The result is that individuals who employ these strategies often feel better in the short term.…”