ArticleJournal of educational psychology2016
A Stitch in Time: Strategic Self-Control in High School and College Students.
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- Food cravings are associated with increased self-regulation, even in the face of strong instigation habits: A longitudinal study of the transition to plant-based eating.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2025Article
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- Uncontrolled vaping and restraint strategies: A qualitative study.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
- Correlates of Cannabis Use and Self-Control Across a Diverse Sample of College Students: 2020-2022.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2024Article
- Is it time to move beyond trait self-control?Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- What's inside is all that counts? The contours of everyday thinking about self-control.Review of philosophy and psychology · 2023Article
- Working from home during the COVID-19 crisis: How self-control strategies elucidate employees' job performance.Applied psychology = Psychologie appliquee · 2022Article
- Sample Size Requirements for Simple and Complex Mediation Models.Educational and psychological measurement · 2022Article
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- A model of coercive control in higher education: a qualitative study.F1000Research · 2022Article
- Self-Regulated Learning Practice of Undergraduate Students in Health Professions Programs.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- Good Character at College: The Combined Role of Second-Order Character Strength Factors andInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- MindHike, a Digital Coaching Application to Promote Self-Control: Rationale, Content, and Study Protocol.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Strategies for self-controlling social media use: Classification and role in preventing social media addiction symptoms.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2019Observational
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A growing body of research indicates that self-control is critical to academic success. Surprisingly little is known, however, about the diverse strategies students use to implement self-control or how well these strategies work. To address these issues, we conducted a naturalistic investigation of self-control strategies (Study 1) and two field experiments (Studies 2 and 3). In Study 1, high school students described the strategies they use to manage interpersonal conflicts, get academic work done, eat healthfully, and manage other everyday self-control challenges. The majority of strategies in these self-nominated incidents as well as in three hypothetical academic scenarios (e.g., studying instead of texting friends) were reliably classified using the process model of self-control. As predicted by the process model, students rated strategies deployed early in the impulse-generation process (situation selection, situation modification) as being dramatically more effective than strategies deployed later (attentional deployment, cognitive change, response modulation). In Study 2, high school students randomly assigned to implement situation modification were more likely to meet their academic goals during the following week than students assigned either to implement response modulation or no strategy at all. In Study 3, college students randomly assigned to implement situation modification were also more successful in meeting their academic goals, and this effect was partially mediated by decreased feelings of temptation throughout the week. Collectively, these findings suggest that students might benefit from learning to initiate self-control when their impulses are still nascent.
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