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- Title
Self-control depletion impairs goal maintenance: A meta-analysis.
- Authors
Dang, Junhua; Björklund, Fredrik; Bäckström, Martin
- Abstract
Initial exertion of self-control has been suggested to impair subsequent self-regulatory performance. The specific cognitive processes that underlie this ego depletion effect have rarely been examined. Drawing on the dual-process theory of executive control (Engle & Kane, ; Kane & Engle, ), the current meta-analysis revealed that initial self-control exertion impairs participants' capacities of maintaining the task goal but its effect on capacities of resolving response competition is in need of further investigation. Our results are more consistent with recent theoretical views that consider ego depletion as a switch cost and a result arising from reduced motivation to engage in further self-control.
- Subjects
CONTROL (Psychology); EGO (Psychology); META-analysis; EXECUTIVE function
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2017, Vol 58, Issue 4, p284
- ISSN
0036-5564
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/sjop.12371