Department of Marketing, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands ; Clinical and Health Psychology Department, Utrecht University Utrecht, Netherlands.
Clinical and Health Psychology Department, Utrecht University Utrecht, Netherlands.
Front Psychol. 2014 Jun 24;5:647. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00647. eCollection 2014.
Self-control relies on a limited resource that can get depleted, a phenomenon that has been labeled ego-depletion. We argue that individuals may differ in their sensitivity to depleting tasks, and that consequently some people deplete their self-control resource at a faster rate than others. In three studies, we assessed individual differences in depletion sensitivity, and demonstrate that depletion sensitivity moderates ego-depletion effects. The Depletion Sensitivity Scale (DSS) was employed to assess depletion sensitivity. Study 1 employs the DSS to demonstrate that individual differences in sensitivity to ego-depletion exist. Study 2 shows moderate correlations of depletion sensitivity with related self-control concepts, indicating that these scales measure conceptually distinct constructs. Study 3 demonstrates that depletion sensitivity moderates the ego-depletion effect. Specifically, participants who are sensitive to depletion performed worse on a second self-control task, indicating a stronger ego-depletion effect, compared to participants less sensitive to depletion.
自我控制依赖于一种有限的资源，这种资源会被消耗殆尽，这种现象被称为自我损耗。我们认为，个体在对消耗性任务的敏感性上可能存在差异，因此有些人比其他人更快地耗尽自我控制资源。在三项研究中，我们评估了消耗敏感性的个体差异，并证明消耗敏感性调节了自我损耗效应。采用消耗敏感性量表（DSS）来评估消耗敏感性。研究 1 采用 DSS 证明了个体对自我损耗的敏感性存在差异。研究 2 表明，消耗敏感性与相关的自我控制概念呈中度相关，表明这些量表测量的是概念上不同的结构。研究 3 表明，消耗敏感性调节了自我损耗效应。具体来说，与消耗不敏感的参与者相比，对消耗敏感的参与者在第二项自我控制任务上表现更差，表明自我损耗效应更强。
