Self-affirmation and self-control: affirming core values counteracts ego depletion.

By B. Schmeichel, Kathleen D. Vohs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2009

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Effortless Self‐Control: A Novel Perspective on Response Conflict Strategies in Trait Self‐Control (2015, neutral): “…effects after initial self-control exertion, demonstrating that personal beliefs about willpower ( Job, Dweck, & Walton, 2010), self-affirmation (Schmeichel & Vohs, 2009), mood (Tice, Baumeister, Shmueli, & Muraven, 2007), and incentives (Muraven & Slessareva, 2003) affect self-control…”
Carryover Effects of Self-Control on Decision Making: A Construal-Level Perspective (2011, methodology): “Study 5 tests that the process underlying the carryover effect of exerting self-control on subsequent judgments and decisions involves construal-level changes by employing a moderation approach (Agrawal and Wan 2009; Schmeichel and Vohs 2009; Spencer, Zanna, and Fong 2005).”
Ethically adrift: How others pull our moral compass from true North, and how we can fix it (2013, background): “…the literature on self-regulation has dominantly studied what depletes our self-control rather than what builds it up (Baumeister & Heatherton, 1996; Vohs, through practice (Muraven, 2010; Oaten & Cheng, 2007) and by finding ways to affirm personally important values (Schmeichel & Vohs, 2009).”
Self-Affirmation: Understanding the Effects (2013, methodology): “Affirmation research has incorporated insight and methods from construal level theory (Wakslak & Trope, 2009), ego depletion and self-control (Schmeichel & Vohs, 2009), the ecosystem and self-transcendence (Crocker et al., 2008), the elaboration likelihood model (Briñol et al., 2007), and terror…”
Reconciling self-protection with self-improvement: Self-affirmation theory. (2011, background): “…that were induced at a higher level of construal (e.g., writing about why one pursues a particular value) led to greater selfcontrol than self-affirmations that were induced at a lower level of construal (e.g., writing about how one pursues a particular value; Schmeichel & Vohs, 2009).”
Transcending Temptation Through Abstraction (2012, background): “…has shown, however, that when a construal-level manipulation is interposed between the two tasks, participants induced to adopt a low-level construal show the typical depletion pattern, but participants induced to adopt a high-level construal do not (Agrawal & Wan, 2009; Schmeichel & Vohs, 2009).”
Blind forces (2014, background): “For example, extant research suggests that reaffirming one’s core values helps to counter the negative effects of ego depletion (i.e., weakened self-control; Baumeister & Heatherton, 1996) because it refocuses one’s perspective on the bigger picture (Schmeichel & Vohs, 2009).”
The psychology of change: self-affirmation and social psychological intervention. (2014, background): “…by psychological threat, self-affirmed people can better marshal their cognitive resources to meet the demands of the task at hand, for example, solving more creative problems under pressure (Creswell et al. 2013) or exerting self-control in a depleting situation (Schmeichel & Vohs 2009).”
Out of Control (2015, positive): “Self-control strength can be restored and improved after it has been depleted: Resting, remembering cherished values, and consuming glucose can bring people’s self-control strength back to prior levels (Baumeister, Vohs, & Tice, 2007; Schmeichel & Vohs, 2009).”
High self-control predicts more positive emotions, better engagement, and higher achievement in school (2014, background): “control can be changed (e.g., Baumeister et al. 2006; Owsley et al. 2003; Schmeichel and Vohs 2009; see also Hagger et al. 2010; Piquero et al. 2010).”