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Does Self-Licensing Benefit Self-Regulation Over Time? An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study of Food Temptations
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
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| Author | Prinsen, Sosja Evers, Catharine Wijngaards, Leoniek Vliet, Renée Van Ridder, Denise De |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0146167218754509?download=true |
| Starting Page | 914 |
| Ending Page | 927 |
| Page Count | 14 |
| ISSN | 01461672 |
| Issue Number | 6 |
| Volume Number | 44 |
| Journal | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSP) |
| e-ISSN | 15527433 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0146167218754509 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications CA |
| Publisher Date | 2018-01-31 |
| Publisher Place | Los Angeles |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © 2018 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc |
| Subject Keyword | justification Self-licensing temptation eating behavior momentary assessment |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Social Psychology |
