Frontiers in Psychology | |
Beliefs about willpower moderate the effect of previous day demands on next dayâs expectations and effective goal striving | |
Katharina Bernecker1  | |
关键词: implicit theories about willpower; goal striving; self-control; optimism; self-efficacy; | |
DOI : 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01496 | |
学科分类:心理学(综合) | |
来源: Frontiers | |
【 摘 要 】
Research suggests that beliefs about willpower affect self-regulation following previous self-regulatory demands (Job et al., 2010). Some people believe that their willpower is limited, meaning that after a demanding task it needs to be replenished (limited theory). By contrast, others believe that willpower is not limited and that previous self-control tasks even activate willpower (non-limited theory). We hypothesized that when people experience a demanding day their beliefs about willpower predict their expected capacity to self-regulate and their actual self-regulation on the following day. In a daily diary study (N = 157), we measured students’ daily level of demands, their expected performance in unpleasant tasks, and their effective goal striving. Results showed that following a demanding day, students with a non-limited theory had higher expectations about their progress in unpleasant tasks and were striving more efficiently for their goals than students with a limited theory. These findings suggest that beliefs about willpower affect whether demands experienced on a previous day have positive or negative consequences on people’s self-regulation.
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