TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - On Conceptualizing Self-Control as More Than the Effortful Inhibition of Impulses
JO  - Personality and social psychology review
A1  - Fujita, Kentaro
SP  - 352
EP  - 366
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
N2  - The notion that self-control entails effortful inhibition of impulses dominates prevailing psychological models of self-control. This article describes some of the conceptual and empirical limitations of defining self-control as the effortful inhibition of impulses. The present article instead advocates for a dual-motive conceptualization, which describes self-control as the process of advancing distal rather than proximal motivations when the two compete. Effortful impulse inhibition in this model represents only one of many means by which people promote their self-control efforts. Adopting a dual-motive approach offers new insight and proposes several new research directions. This article discusses these implications and calls for psychologists to reconsider the way self-control is currently understood.<p /> 
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SN  - 1088-8683
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088868311411165
ID  - ref1
ER  -