Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2016 Aug;111(2):284-300. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000108.
In 4 studies, we accumulated support for the prediction that depletion suspends the comparator mechanism of self-regulatory monitoring. We adopted an individual difference approach and designated chronic self-consciousness as a signature variable for the comparator mechanism. In the nondepletion condition, we found that self-consciousness predicted self-regulation by itself (Study 1), or by interacting synergistically with other motivational factors such as online goal focus (Study 2) and task motivation (Study 3). In the depletion condition, self-consciousness ceased to predict task performance, which suggested that the self-focused comparator mechanism is suspended by depletion. Instead, depleted participants' self-control was predicted by their implicit goal to rest (Study 3), indicating that depletion does not indiscriminately suspend all self-regulatory processes. In Study 4, we showed that when an effective comparator mechanism is counterproductive to task performance, depletion can actually increase task performance. Implications of our findings for the underlying process of depletion as well as models positing ultimate explanations for sequential self-regulation are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record
在 4 项研究中，我们积累了支持这样一种预测的证据，即自我调节监测的比较器机制会在资源枯竭时暂停。我们采用了个体差异的方法，并将慢性自我意识指定为比较器机制的特征变量。在非枯竭状态下，我们发现自我意识本身（研究 1）或与其他动机因素（如在线目标关注，研究 2 和任务动机，研究 3）协同作用，预测自我调节。在枯竭状态下，自我意识不再预测任务表现，这表明自我聚焦的比较器机制因枯竭而暂停。相反，被耗尽的参与者的自我控制由他们休息的内隐目标（研究 3）预测，这表明枯竭不会不加区分地暂停所有自我调节过程。在研究 4 中，我们表明，当有效的比较器机制对任务表现不利时，枯竭实际上可以提高任务表现。我们的研究结果对枯竭的潜在过程以及对连续自我调节的最终解释模型的讨论。（心理学信息数据库记录
