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Is Addiction a Choice?
Published in Jenny Svanberg, The Psychology of Addiction, 2018
Another theory is that conscious suppression depletes willpower, known as ‘ego depletion’ or ‘ego fatigue’, essentially that the more you try and push away urges and impulses, the more your willpower drains away, until giving in just feels inevitable (Baumeister et al., 1998). Attempts at conscious suppression just weaken self-control. Essentially, ‘just say no’ doesn’t work, once the process of incentive sensitisation is harnessing your attention and directing your actions. The ‘quick and dirty’ impulsive processes capture attention and direct it towards rewarding cues, triggering behaviour while the slower, more reflective processes are still catching up. Once this process has been enacted, it is harder for conscious demands – ‘Stop!… don’t do it!’ – to control the behaviour. Marc Lewis points out that shifting perspective and reframing your emotional state avoids this depletion of self-control: “Instead of tying yourself to the mast in order to resist the Sirens’ song, you must recognise the Sirens as harbingers of death and reframe their songs as background noise” (2015, p. 185).
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Published in Pat Croskerry, Karen S. Cosby, Mark L. Graber, Hardeep Singh, Diagnosis, 2017
Pat Croskerry, Karen S. Cosby, Mark L. Graber, Hardeep Singh
ego depletion: a form of exhaustion in which an individual may compromise their decisions to save energy. In cognition, it may explain resorting to heuristics and short-cuts that an individual might not otherwise use.
Examinations of change in inhibitory and initiatory Self-Control in the context of endurance running
Published in Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 2022
Jennifer Shubert, Benjamin Houltberg, Juliette Ratchford, Sarah Schnitker
Documenting within-person change in self-control and its predictors offer important implications for theory. Although ego-depletion is typically characterized as a temporary state, results from the current study inform theory by providing evidence that some types of trait self-control display depletion effects that persist across time and activity context—articulating when and which aspects of self-control are likely to be depleted offers a step forward for theory. Moreover, results highlight the role of motivational constructs in buffering against depletion effects. Future research may benefit from an in-depth examination of how integrating goals, such as marathon participation, into a sense of self allows individuals to override desires that are incongruent with higher-order goals.
Effect of Ego Depletion on Interpersonal Trust among Individuals with Substance Use Disorders
Published in Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2020
Two dominant models favor the existence of this ego depletion effect. The first model is the strength model of self-control, which suggests that the capacity for self-regulation resembles a limited energy or resource, which is consumed during the process of exerting self-control (Baumeister and Vohs 2018; Baumeister, Vohs, and Tice 2007). Thus, ego depletion is regarded as a temporary state where the executive function is impaired and which is caused by the use of self-regulating resources during previous tasks. After expending energy and thus becoming ego depleted, people are less willing (or able) to exert further self-control. The second model is the process model of self-control, which suggests that the ego depletion effect is caused by a temporary mental shift rather than the depletion of resources (Inzlicht and Schmeichel 2012). Thus, when people engage in two consecutive tasks, their motivation is assumed to shift from suppressing and inhibiting desires toward approaching and gratifying them. This, in turn, shifts their attention from cues signaling the need to exert control toward cues signaling gratification.
A Cluster Analysis of Sleep Quality, Self-Care Behaviors, and Mental Health Risk in Australian University Students
Published in Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 2020
Mirella Di Benedetto, Cameron J. Towt, Melinda L. Jackson
The Strength and Energy Model (SAEM, Muraven & Baumeister, 2000) may explain habituation of poor sleep and SCB. The model indicates that self-regulatory psychological resources are limited and renewable, so are best utilized across SCB that demand them. Expenditure of psychological resources used for self-control leads to a state of ego depletion, in which the individual is less prone to regulate the self to function effectively. To prevent reaching full exhaustion, attempts are made to conserve existing self-regulatory resources through a heavy reliance on heuristics, habits, and routines that require fewer resources for execution. Persistent poor SQ may deplete available self-regulation resources, such as mindfulness, to resist impulses to consume unhealthy food (Lentz, 2014), not engage in PA (Pengpid & Peltzer, 2013), and to engage in binge drinking (Nelson et al., 2009). Combined, these health risk behaviors may be habituated to the extent that the perceived effort and self-efficacy required to engage in SCB could be greater than the effort to avoid health risk behaviors (Lovell et al., 2014).