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PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Volume 218, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2023.112494
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Self-regulation; Self-control; Self-esteem; Self-enhancement
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Claiming knowledge about something that does not exist may reflect self-enhancement motives. Trait self-control is negatively related to overclaiming and also relates to claiming knowledge about nonexistent concepts.
Claiming knowledge about something that does not exist may reflect self-enhancement motives. Is trait selfcontrol related to overclaiming? We considered two possibilities. One possibility was that trait self-control relates positively to overclaiming, perhaps due to social desirability or self-enhancing motivations to report high self-control. The other possibility was that abstaining from self-enhancement requires a degree of inhibition or self-control, resulting in a negative relationship between trait self-control and overclaiming. We tested the correlation between trait self-control and responses on the Over-Claiming Questionnaire (OCQ) in a large sample of college students (N = 566). The OCQ measures familiarity with real and fake information and yields indices of accuracy (knowledge) and bias (overclaiming). Trait self-control related negatively to OCQ accuracy and positively to OCQ bias. People with higher trait self-control tended to claim knowledge about nonexistent concepts, which suggests that responses to the Trait Self-Control Scale capture an element of self-enhancement tendencies.
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