Academic Examination Stress Impairs Self–Control

By Megan Oaten, Ken Cheng. 2005

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Mediator and moderator effects of demands on self-control in the relationship between work load and indicators of job strain (2009, background): “Providing support for this argument, Oaten and Cheng (2005) analysed the impact of academic examination stress on self-control performance in non-related domains (e.g. consumption behaviour, emotional control and attendance to commitments) and strain experience among students.”
The strength model of self-regulation failure and health-related behaviour (2009, background): “Oaten and Cheng ( 2005 ) demonstrated that exam stress had a significant detrimental impact on students’ self-reported health-related behaviours requiring self-control, including physical activity.”
Building consumer self-control: The effect of self-control exercises on impulse buying urges (2012, background): “Oaten and Cheng (2006a) assigned students to a physical exercise condition or a waitlist control condition.”
Improved Self-Control: The Benefits of a Regular Program of Academic Study (2006, methodology): “We found that students who were dealing with academic examination stress reported breakdowns in regulatory behavior that were not matched during the control phase, replicating our previous findings (Oaten & Cheng, 2005a).”
Executive Functions (2012, unknown): “They suffer first, and most, if you are stressed (Arnsten 1998, Liston et al. 2009, Oaten & Cheng 2005), sad (Hirt et al. 2008, von Hecker & Meiser 2005), lonely (Baumeister et al. 2002, Cacioppo & Patrick 2008, Campbell et al. 2006, Tun et al. 2012), sleep deprived (Barnes et al. 2012, Huang et…”
The Effects of Stress on Physical Activity and Exercise (2014, unknown): “Both studies found declines in duration of exercise/PA compared to controls, but Oaten and Cheng [192] also found declines in exercise frequency and the perceived ease of exercise.”
Debt out of control: The links between self-control, compulsive buying, and real debts (2015, background): “…domain of self-control (e.g., money spending behavior) or even used variables as indicators of self-control that are usually discussed as consequences of a lack of self-control, but not as self-control itself (e.g., the BMI, drinking behavior; see Oaten & Cheng, 2005; Tangney et al., 2004).”
Self-regulation and personality: how interventions increase regulatory success, and how depletion moderates the effects of traits on behavior. (2006, background): “Compared to waiting list controls, students who completed the study program reported less emotional distress and perceived stress during their next examination period (see Oaten & Cheng, 2005, on self-regulatory failure during exam periods).”
Improvements in self-control from financial monitoring (2007, background): “However, in our previous work, subjects readily reported impaired regulatory behavior during periods of high academic demand (without any intervention program Oaten & Cheng, 2005, 2006a, 2006b).”
Mindfulness and Health Behaviors (2010, background): “Individual/interpersonal variables related to health behaviors include social support (De Bourdeaudhuij and Sallis 2002 ;L eslie et al. 1999; Wallace et al. 2000), stress (Israel and Schurman 1990; Oaten and Cheng 2005 ), readiness for change (Best et al. 1986; Fahrenwald and Walker 2003), and self”
Self-Control Depletion Leads to Increased Risk Taking (2010, methodology): “…this model has found that any and all tasks that require the individual to stop, override, or change a behavior by using higher order executive functions will deplete this strength and will be affected by depletion in turn (e.g., Muraven et al., 1998; Oaten & Cheng, 2005; Schmeichel, 2007).”