Alberts Hugo J E M, Martijn Carolien, Greb Judith, Merckelbach Harald, de Vries Nanne K
Universiteit Maastricht, Faculty of Psychology, Experimental Psychololgy, PO box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2007 Jun;46(Pt 2):383-99. doi: 10.1348/014466606X130111.
Research has shown that repeated exercise of self-control leads to impaired performance on subsequent self-control tasks, a phenomenon labelled ego depletion. The current research investigates the influence of automatic processes on self-control performance. Study 1 shows that activation of persistence leads to stable self-control performance and may help to overcome effects of ego depletion. Initially depleted participants kept their physical self-control performances constant when primed with persistence. If such a prime was absent, self-control performance of depleted participants decreased indicating ego depletion. Using a different manipulation, these findings were replicated in Study 2.
研究表明，反复进行自我控制会导致后续自我控制任务的表现受损，这一现象被称为自我损耗。当前的研究调查了自动过程对自我控制表现的影响。研究1表明，坚持性的激活会带来稳定的自我控制表现，并可能有助于克服自我损耗的影响。最初处于损耗状态的参与者在受到坚持性启动时，其身体自我控制表现保持不变。如果没有这样的启动，处于损耗状态的参与者的自我控制表现就会下降，表明出现了自我损耗。使用不同的操作方法，这些发现在研究2中得到了重复验证。
