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PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN
Volume 32, Issue 8, Pages 1024-1036Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0146167206288008
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choice; ego-depletion; self-regulation; self-control; autonomy; self-determination
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The self-regulatory strength model maintains that all acts of self-regulation, self-control, and choice result in a state of fatigue called ego-depletion. Self-determination theory differentiates between autonomous regulation and controlled regulation. Because making decisions represents one instance of self-regulation, the authors also differentiate between autonomous choice and controlled choice. Three experiments support the hypothesis that whereas conditions representing controlled choice would be ego-depleting, conditions that represented autonomous choice would not. In Experiment 3, the authors found significant mediation by perceived self-determination of the relation between the choice condition (autonomous vs. controlled) and ego-depletion as measured by performance.
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