Restricted until: | Jul 22, 2021 |
Type of Publication: | Journal article |
Publication status: | Published |
URI (citable link): | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-pr9kn7q4terd4 |
Author: | Wolff, Wanja; Martarelli, Corinna S. |
Year of publication: | 2020 |
Published in: | Perspectives on Psychological Science ; 15 (2020), 5. - pp. 1272-1283. - Sage. - ISSN 1745-6916. - eISSN 1745-6924 |
Pubmed ID: | 32697921 |
DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691620921394 |
Summary: |
During the past two decades, self-control research has been dominated by the strength model of self-control, which is built on the premise that the capacity for self-control is a limited global resource that can become temporarily depleted, resulting in a state called ego depletion. The foundations of ego depletion have recently been questioned. Thus, although self-control is among the most researched psychological concepts with high societal relevance, an inconsistent body of literature limits our understanding of how self-control operates. Here, we propose that the inconsistencies are partly due to a confound that has unknowingly and systematically been introduced into the ego-depletion research: boredom. We propose that boredom might affect results of self-control research by placing an unwanted demand on self-control and signaling that one should explore behavioral alternatives. To account for boredom in self-controlled behavior, we provide a working model that integrates evidence from reward-based models of self-control and recent theorizing on boredom to explain the effects of both self-control exertion and boredom on subsequent self-control performance. We propose that task-induced boredom should be systematically monitored in self-control research to assess the validity of the ego-depletion effect.
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Subject (DDC): | 796 Sport |
Bibliography of Konstanz: | Yes |
Refereed: | Yes |
WOLFF, Wanja, Corinna S. MARTARELLI, 2020. Bored Into Depletion? : Toward a Tentative Integration of Perceived Self-Control Exertion and Boredom as Guiding Signals for Goal-Directed Behavior. In: Perspectives on Psychological Science. Sage. 15(5), pp. 1272-1283. ISSN 1745-6916. eISSN 1745-6924. Available under: doi: 10.1177/1745691620921394
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