Muraven Mark, Shmueli Dikla, Burkley Edward
Department of Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12222, USA.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2006 Sep;91(3):524-37. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.91.3.524.
Individuals may be motivated to limit their use of self-control resources, especially when they have depleted some of that resource. Expecting to need self-control strength in the future should heighten the motivation to conserve strength. In 4 experiments, it was found that depleted participants who anticipated exerting self-control in the future performed more poorly in an intervening test of self-control than participants who were not depleted, and more poorly than those who did not expect to exert self-control in the future. Conversely, those who conserved strength performed better on tasks that they conserved the strength for as compared with those who did not conserve. The underlying economic or conservation of resource model sheds some light on the operation of self-control strength.
个体可能会有动机去限制自身对自我控制资源的使用，尤其是当他们已经消耗了部分此类资源时。预期未来需要自我控制力量应该会增强保存力量的动机。在4项实验中，研究发现，那些在未来预期要进行自我控制的耗竭参与者，在自我控制的中间测试中表现得比未耗竭的参与者更差，且比那些未预期在未来进行自我控制的参与者表现更差。相反，那些保存了力量的人在他们为其保存力量的任务上，比未保存力量的人表现得更好。潜在的经济或资源保存模型为自我控制力量的运作提供了一些启示。
