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Self-Control in Daily Life
- Source :
- Social Psychological and Personality Science. 7:195-203
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2016.
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Abstract
- In this daily diary study, we investigated the flexibility-enhancing effects of positive affect on the self-reported success of self-control strategies followed in daily life; 297 participants completed a 13-day daily diary that included measures of positive affect, desire, and habit strength as well as three self-control strategies (i.e., monitoring, distraction, and stimulus control). We found specific effects of positive affect on self-control strategies: Individuals with higher positive affect were most successful when following a strategy of distraction (e.g., thinking about something else), particularly when faced with strong tempting desires. These results reinforce the idea that positive affect is associated with both cognitive flexibility and distractibility, which may help people distract them from tempting desires.
- Subjects :
- Social Psychology
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education
05 social sciences
Cognitive flexibility
050109 social psychology
Self-control
Habit strength
Daily diary
Affect (psychology)
050105 experimental psychology
Clinical Psychology
Distraction
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Psychology
Stimulus control
Social psychology
psychological phenomena and processes
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Details
- ISSN :
- 19485514 and 19485506
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Social Psychological and Personality Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........b6789b46468d10c5782e3b811097857e