Cheng Linjing, Qin Huahui, Yang Yin, Dang Junhua
School of Business Foreign Languages, Shenzhen Polytechnic University, Shenzhen, China.
School of Psychology, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China.
Front Sports Act Living. 2025 Mar 18;7:1543481. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2025.1543481. eCollection 2025.
This study aims to explore the effects of long-term physical exercise on different types of self-control, with a focus on persistent and inhibitory self-control. Two experiments were conducted using dual-task paradigms. In Experiment 1, the E-crossing task served as the depletion task, and the grip task was used to measure persistent self-control. Results indicated that long-term exercisers exhibited significantly better persistent self-control than non-exercisers, (1, 54) = 6.55, = .013, η = 0.11. Experiment 2 employed the Stroop task as the detection task to measure inhibitory self-control. No significant differences were found between the exercise and non-exercise groups in inhibitory self-control performance. These findings suggest that long-term physical exercise may enhance persistent self-control, but its effects on inhibitory self-control remain unclear. The study addresses potential confounding factors, such as task-specific effects and baseline performance differences, and highlights the need for future research to explore diverse self-control tasks and establish causal relationships. The results contribute to the understanding of self-control training and provide insights into the domain-specific effects of physical exercise on self-control.
本研究旨在探讨长期体育锻炼对不同类型自我控制的影响，重点关注坚持性自我控制和抑制性自我控制。使用双任务范式进行了两项实验。在实验1中，E型交叉任务作为损耗任务，握力任务用于测量坚持性自我控制。结果表明，长期锻炼者在坚持性自我控制方面表现显著优于非锻炼者，(1, 54) = 6.55, = .013, η = 0.11。实验2采用斯特鲁普任务作为检测任务来测量抑制性自我控制。锻炼组和非锻炼组在抑制性自我控制表现上未发现显著差异。这些发现表明，长期体育锻炼可能会增强坚持性自我控制，但其对抑制性自我控制的影响仍不明确。该研究探讨了潜在的混杂因素，如任务特定效应和基线表现差异，并强调未来研究需要探索不同的自我控制任务并建立因果关系。研究结果有助于理解自我控制训练，并为体育锻炼对自我控制的领域特定效应提供见解。
