PURPOSE To test whether aerobic exercise can help build self-control stamina in healthy female young adults. Stamina in this context is defined as the capability to endure ego depletion, which can be measured with a self-control task following another activity also requiring self-control. METHODS Forty-five healthy undergraduate women were randomized to either an experimental group or control...

When leaders perform solitary tasks, do they self-regulate to maximize their effort, or do they reduce effort and conserve their resources? Our model suggests that power motivates self-regulation toward effective performance-unless the task is perceived as unworthy of leaders. Our 1st studies showed that power improves self-regulation and performance, even when resources for self-regulation are...

Title of Document: WHEN GUIDELINES BECOME DEMANDS: HIGHLY RESTRICTIVE STANDARDS PROMOTE SELFREGULATORY FAILURE. Steven G. Buzinski, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Directed By: Professor Harold Sigall, Ph.D. Department of Psychology University of Maryland Self-regulation is often defined as the process of altering one’s thoughts, feelings, or behaviors in order to attain, or maintain, some desired s...

Self-regulation is the situation where an individual attempts to control or alter his/her behavior. Research in social psychology has demonstrated that the act of self-regulation during one task can lead to impaired performance on a subsequent, unrelated task, because individuals have limited cognitive resources. In situation where companies are trying to limit the effect of interruptions due t...

This paper has two parts. The mathematical part provides generalized versions of the robust Ekeland variational principle in terms set-valued EVP with variable preferences, uncertain parameters and changing weights given to vectorial perturbation functions. behavioural that motivates our findings models formation stability a partnership changing, complex environment context rationality approach...

The purpose of the study was to examine the relations of authoritative parenting and corporal punishment to Chinese first and second graders' effortful control (EC), impulsivity, ego resilience, and maladjustment, as well as mediating relations. A parent and teacher reported on children's EC, impulsivity, and ego resilience; parents reported on children's internalizing symptoms and their own pa...

BACKGROUND The limited strength model of self-control predicts that acts of self-control impair subsequent performance on tasks that require self-control (i.e., "ego depletion"), and the majority of the published research on this topic is supportive of this prediction. Additional research suggests that this effect can be alleviated by manipulating participants' motivation to perform-for instanc...