Action versus state orientation and self-control performance after depletion
Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Handlungsorientierung anstelle von Zustandsorientierung und Selbstkontrolle nach Erschöpfung |
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Autor: | Gröpel, Peter; Baumeister, Roy F.; Beckmann, Jürgen |
Erschienen in: | Personality and social psychology bulletin |
Veröffentlicht: | 40 (2014), 4, S. 476-487, Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Medienart: | Elektronische Ressource (online) Gedruckte Ressource |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 0146-1672, 1552-7433 |
DOI: | 10.1177/0146167213516636 |
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Erfassungsnummer: | PU201701000438 |
Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract des Autors
Three studies investigated the role of action versus state orientation in how people deal with depletion of self-control resources. Action-oriented persons were expected to continue allocating resources and hence to perform better than state-oriented persons who were expected to conserve strength. Consistent with this, action-oriented persons performed better on the d2 test of attention than state-oriented persons after a strenuous physical exercise (Study 1), showed higher acuity on the critical fusion frequency test after a test of vigilance (Study 2), and performed better on the Stroop test after a depleting sensorimotor task (Study 3). No differences emerged between action- and state-oriented persons in their initial performance and in a non-depleting context. The impact of depletion on subsequent performance is thus not fixed, but moderated by personality.