On Conceptualizing Self-Control as More Than the Effortful Inhibition of Impulses

By Kentaro Fujita. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2011

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

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Annual Research Review: On the relations among self-regulation, self-control, executive functioning, effortful control, cognitive control, impulsivity, risk-taking, and inhibition for developmental psychopathology (2016, neutral): “It has also been used in the social and other literatures in a broad sense to refer to voluntary cognition and behavior or effectively, top-down aspects of SR (Duckworth & Kern, 2011; Fujita, 2011); here it encompasses also control strategies such as reappraisal, precommitment, and others Self-regul”
What’s So Great About Self-Control? Examining the Importance of Effortful Self-Control and Temptation in Predicting Real-Life Depletion and Goal Attainment (2015, background): “This is in line with recent research on ‘‘effortless self-control’’ (Fujita, 2011) and habits (e.g., Galla & Duckworth, 2015), which suggest that effective self-regulation may be effortless rather than requiring active self-control (Adriaanse et al., 2014; Gillebaart & de Ridder, 2015; see also…”
Transcending Temptation Through Abstraction (2012, background): “The term “self-control” refers to the successful resolution of these decisional dilemmas in favor of the more valuable, distal goals despite the allure of the smaller, proximal rewards (Ainslie, 1975; Fujita, 2011; Mischel, Rodriguez, & Shoda, 1989).”
Whatever Happened to Self-Control? A Proposal for Integrating Notions From Trait Self-Control Studies Into State Self-Control Research (2017, neutral): “A more accurate definition of self-control would therefore emphasize the ability to handle self-control dilemmas: situations in which competing behavioral tendencies create a conflict that needs to be resolved rather than simply overriding an immediate urge (Fujita, 2011; Myrseth & Fishbach, 2009).”
Some goals just feel easier: Self-concordance leads to goal progress through subjective ease, not effort ☆ (2016, background): “…engage in successful, effortless self-regulatory strategies that extend beyond impulse inhibition (Adriaanse, Kroese, Gillebaart, & De Ridder, 2014; De Ridder, Lensvelt-Mulders, Finkenauer, Stok, & Baumeister, 2012; Fujita, 2011; Gillebaart & De Ridder, 2015; Milyavskaya, Inzlicht, et al., 2015).”
New Directions in Self-Regulation: The Role of Metamotivational Beliefs (2018, neutral): “For example, individuals hold accurate metamotivational knowledge about the qualitative aspects of motivation that facilitate success in self-control conflicts—conflicts between relatively immediate, local concerns versus distant, global goals (Fujita, 2011).”
From future self to current action: An identity-based motivation perspective (2018, result): “Advancing research on self-control and motivation Our findings complement prior research on self-control, delay of gratification, and temporal discounting in a number of ways (e.g., Fujita, 2011; Kross, Ayduk, & Mischel, 2005; Loewenstein, O’Donoghue, & Rabin, 2000).”
Leading from different psychological distances: A construal-level perspective on vision communication, goal setting, and follower motivation (2015, background): “Despite its relatively recent introduction (Trope & Liberman, 2003), CLT has received outstanding attention in Psychology (e.g., Fujita, 2011; Magee & Smith, 2013), as well as in other disciplines, such as Marketing (White, MacDonnell, & Dahl, 2011), Strategic Management (Barreto, 2013), and…”
Self-Control in School-Age Children (2014, background): “…not only with diverse psychological traditions (Baumeister, Heatherton, & Tice, 1994; Eisenberg, Smith, Sadovsky, & Spinrad, 2004; Freud, 1920; Fujita, 2011; Hofmann, Friese, & Strack, 2009; Milkman, Rogers, & Bazerman, 2008; W. Mischel et al., 1989; Rachlin, 2000; Rothbart & Rueda, 2005) but…”
Measurement Matters: Assessing Personal Qualities Other Than Cognitive Ability for Educational Purposes (2015, background): “, thinking about a marshmallow as a fluffy white cloud instead of a sticky, sweet treat) dramatically improve our ability to resist them (Fujita, 2011; Mischel et al., 2011).”
A General Model of Preventive and Interventive Self‐Control (2012, background): “Situation and stimulus control have been the focus in behavior modification approaches to self-control (Mahoney & Thoresen, 1972) and in economic treatments of the topic (Elster, 1979; Schelling, 1984; Thaler & Shefrin, 1981), but have been somewhat neglected by today’s social and personality psycho”
Situational Strategies for Self-Control (2016, background): “Specifically, feelings of strain associated with directly modulating our responses can draw our attention away from the fundamental mechanics of self-control, leading us to assume, wrongly, that the most obvious cases of self-control represent all cases of selfcontrol (Fujita, 2011).”
‘The Ostrich Problem’: motivated avoidance or rejection of information about goal progress (2013, neutral): “, self-improvement) (Fujita, 2011).”