Degree Name

MA (Master of Arts)

Program

Psychology

Date of Award

5-2011

Committee Chair or Co-Chairs

Ginette C. Blackhart

Committee Members

Stacey L. Williams, Christopher S. Dula

Abstract

Self-control enables people to make decisions that can promote overall well-being. Such decisions include refraining from overeating or the decision to motivate individuals to persevere when faced with difficulties. The purpose of this study was to determine if not requiring the expenditure of self-control and boosting self-esteem would enable participants to persist longer at a task designed to measure self-control than participants who were required to expend self-control and received an ego threat. No significant main effects were found for self-control manipulations, F (1, 223) = .54, p = .46, or for self-esteem manipulations, F (1, 223) = .01, p = .91. No significant interaction effects were found. F(3, 219) = .785, p =.503.

Document Type

Thesis - unrestricted

Copyright

Copyright by the authors.

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