Social power and dimensions of self-control: Does power benefit initiatory self-control but impair inhibitory self-control?

Heller, Sonja; Borsay, Florence; Ullrich, Johannes

doi:10.1080/23311908.2017.1288351

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“…Although it is still far from achieving a field-wide consensus (Baggetta and Alexander, 2016 ), attempts to systematically classify and operationally define different facets of EFs (e.g., updating, shifting, and inhibition; Miyake et al, 2000 ) have contributed to developing some initial consensus, which has helped researchers judge whether a task implicates EF processes. Analogous attempts would be helpful for self-control research, especially if such efforts can help systematically examine which facets of self-control are linked to the ego-depletion phenomenon (e.g., Fujita, 2011 ; Heller et al, 2017 ).…”

Section: Lack Of Clear Operational Definitions Of Self-controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges to Ego-Depletion Research Go beyond the Replication Crisis: A Need for Tackling the Conceptual Crisis

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Section: Lack Of Clear Operational Definitions Of Self-controlmentioning

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Challenges to Ego-Depletion Research Go beyond the Replication Crisis: A Need for Tackling the Conceptual Crisis

2017

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“…They are more likely to act on internal driving forces (e.g., their own values and attitudes) and are less affected by external cues (especially peers) [25]. High-power individuals tend to show better self-control than low-power individuals [26]. Because they have more advantages when balancing goals and adjusting their attention [27], they control their impulsiveness or adopt delayed gratification strategies to achieve long-term goals.…”

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“…Because they have more advantages when balancing goals and adjusting their attention [27], they control their impulsiveness or adopt delayed gratification strategies to achieve long-term goals. Heller et al [26] showed that when a task requires the participation of self-control, a high sense of power can increase self-control to sufficiently initiate and maintain behavior, thereby promoting the completion of the task.…”

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Linking Self-Control to Negative Risk-Taking Behavior among Chinese Late Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model

Liang

Dou

et al. 2022

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Negative risk-taking behaviors refer to voluntary behaviors that lead to more harm than good. Low self-control is a crucial predictor of adolescents’ negative risk-taking behavior, but its internal mechanisms require further exploration. To reveal the working process underlying the association between self-control and adolescents’ negative risk-taking behaviors, we investigated the mediation of regulatory focus and the moderation of sense of power. A total of 2018 students (37.6% males) from two universities in Guangzhou, China, participated in a survey that investigated their self-control, negative risk-taking behavior, regulatory focus and sense of power. The results revealed that after controlling for the adolescents’ sex and their parents’ educational level, prevention focus partially mediated the association between self-control and negative risk-taking behavior. Moreover, sense of power moderated the association between self-control and prevention focus. Furthermore, the association between self-control and negative risk-taking behavior through prevention focus was stronger among adolescents with a high sense of power than among those with a low sense of power. Therefore, our findings suggest that regulatory focus and sense of power might be the mechanisms that explain how self-control is related to negative risk-taking behavior. These results thus provide a foundation for the prevention of and intervention in adolescents’ negative risk-taking behavior.

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“…Following this rationale, each transfer level can be matched with an increasingly dissimilar task. In our case, this includes (1) an auditory SST, which differs only in terms of response modality (modality transfer), (2) a Stroop task, which differs only in terms of the task-related operation (near transfer), (3) a flanker task, which differs both in terms of the task-related operation and the underlying inhibitory function (far transfer), and (4) an unsolvable anagram task, in which the contribution of inhibitory processes should be minor relative to initiatory processes that boost persistence and problem-solving (Allom & Mullan, 2014;Heller et al, 2017).…”

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The role of task similarity for ego depletion: A registered report

Primoceri

Ramer

Ullrich

et al. 2021

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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Ego depletion refers to decrements in self-control performance resulting from prior use of self-control. The ego depletion effect has received much research attention, but the more recent literature reports small or null effects. This registered report examined the moderating effect of task similarity on the ego depletion effect. We predicted a crossover interaction between type of primary and secondary task such that engaging in a demanding self-control task should lead to better performance in the secondary task when it is similar to the primary task (facilitation effect) but worse performance when it is dissimilar (ego depletion). In a preregistered pilot study, N = 80 participants first completed either a visual stop-signal task (SST) or a simple lexical categorization task. They proceeded with one of four tasks classified as increasingly dissimilar based on their underlying operations and executive functions: (1) auditory stop-signal task, (2) Stroop task, (3) Eriksen flanker task, and (4) unsolvable anagrams. Both the pilot study and a high-powered registered replication (N = 300) revealed the predicted interaction effect. However, evidence for facilitation from similar tasks was stronger than evidence for depletion from dissimilar tasks. Together, these findings highlight the important role of task similarity for the study of ego depletion and related phenomena.

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Social power and dimensions of self-control: Does power benefit initiatory self-control but impair inhibitory self-control?

Cited by 6 publications

References 51 publications

Challenges to Ego-Depletion Research Go beyond the Replication Crisis: A Need for Tackling the Conceptual Crisis

Challenges to Ego-Depletion Research Go beyond the Replication Crisis: A Need for Tackling the Conceptual Crisis

Linking Self-Control to Negative Risk-Taking Behavior among Chinese Late Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model

The role of task similarity for ego depletion: A registered report

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