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Does Self-Licensing Benefit Self-Regulation Over Time? An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study of Food Temptations
Self-licensing, employing reasons to justify indulgence, may help resolve the conflict between immediate temptations and long-term goals in favor of the former. It was hypothesized that this conflict-resolving potential of self-licensing may benefit self-regulation over time. With a momentary assess...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5946654/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29383977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167218754509 |
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author | Prinsen, Sosja Evers, Catharine Wijngaards, Leoniek van Vliet, Renée de Ridder, Denise |
author_facet | Prinsen, Sosja Evers, Catharine Wijngaards, Leoniek van Vliet, Renée de Ridder, Denise |
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description | Self-licensing, employing reasons to justify indulgence, may help resolve the conflict between immediate temptations and long-term goals in favor of the former. It was hypothesized that this conflict-resolving potential of self-licensing may benefit self-regulation over time. With a momentary assessment design, we examined how self-licensing affects self-regulatory ability and the capacity to deal with subsequent self-regulatory conflicts. One hundred thirty-six female participants filled out surveys eight times per day for one week. Food temptation strength, conflict, resistance, and enactment were assessed, as well as license opportunity and perceived self-regulatory ability. When self-licensing opportunity was high (vs. low), a weaker association between temptation strength and conflict was observed. High license opportunity was associated with higher perceived self-regulatory ability for instances of low degrees of temptation enactment and predicted better handling of subsequent conflict after high degrees of prior temptation enactment. These results suggest that self-licensing can support self-regulation after initial failure. |
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spelling | pubmed-59466542018-05-18 Does Self-Licensing Benefit Self-Regulation Over Time? An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study of Food Temptations Prinsen, Sosja Evers, Catharine Wijngaards, Leoniek van Vliet, Renée de Ridder, Denise Pers Soc Psychol Bull Articles Self-licensing, employing reasons to justify indulgence, may help resolve the conflict between immediate temptations and long-term goals in favor of the former. It was hypothesized that this conflict-resolving potential of self-licensing may benefit self-regulation over time. With a momentary assessment design, we examined how self-licensing affects self-regulatory ability and the capacity to deal with subsequent self-regulatory conflicts. One hundred thirty-six female participants filled out surveys eight times per day for one week. Food temptation strength, conflict, resistance, and enactment were assessed, as well as license opportunity and perceived self-regulatory ability. When self-licensing opportunity was high (vs. low), a weaker association between temptation strength and conflict was observed. High license opportunity was associated with higher perceived self-regulatory ability for instances of low degrees of temptation enactment and predicted better handling of subsequent conflict after high degrees of prior temptation enactment. These results suggest that self-licensing can support self-regulation after initial failure. SAGE Publications 2018-01-31 2018-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5946654/ /pubmed/29383977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167218754509 Text en © 2018 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Articles Prinsen, Sosja Evers, Catharine Wijngaards, Leoniek van Vliet, Renée de Ridder, Denise Does Self-Licensing Benefit Self-Regulation Over Time? An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study of Food Temptations |
title | Does Self-Licensing Benefit Self-Regulation Over Time? An Ecological
Momentary Assessment Study of Food Temptations |
title_full | Does Self-Licensing Benefit Self-Regulation Over Time? An Ecological
Momentary Assessment Study of Food Temptations |
title_fullStr | Does Self-Licensing Benefit Self-Regulation Over Time? An Ecological
Momentary Assessment Study of Food Temptations |
title_full_unstemmed | Does Self-Licensing Benefit Self-Regulation Over Time? An Ecological
Momentary Assessment Study of Food Temptations |
title_short | Does Self-Licensing Benefit Self-Regulation Over Time? An Ecological
Momentary Assessment Study of Food Temptations |
title_sort | does self-licensing benefit self-regulation over time? an ecological
momentary assessment study of food temptations |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5946654/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29383977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167218754509 |
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