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doi:10.22028/D291-29013
Title: | Does Self-Control Training Improve Self-Control? A Meta-Analysis |
Author(s): | Friese, Malte Frankenbach, Julius Job, Veronika Loschelder, David D. |
Language: | English |
Title: | Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science |
Volume: | 12 |
Issue: | 6 |
Startpage: | 1077 |
Endpage: | 1099 |
Publisher/Platform: | Sage |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Publikation type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | Self-control is positively associated with a host of beneficial outcomes. Therefore, psychological interventions that reliably improve self-control are of great societal value. A prominent idea suggests that training self-control by repeatedly overriding dominant responses should lead to broad improvements in self-control over time. Here, we conducted a random-effects meta-analysis based on robust variance estimation of the published and unpublished literature on self-control training effects. Results based on 33 studies and 158 effect sizes revealed a small-to-medium effect of g = 0.30, confidence interval (CI95) [0.17, 0.42]. Moderator analyses found that training effects tended to be larger for (a) self-control stamina rather than strength, (b) studies with inactive compared to active control groups, (c) males than females, and (d) when proponents of the strength model of self-control were (co)authors of a study. Bias-correction techniques suggested the presence of small-study effects and/or publication bias and arrived at smaller effect size estimates (range: gcorrected = .13 to .24). The mechanisms underlying the effect are poorly understood. There is not enough evidence to conclude that the repeated control of dominant responses is the critical element driving training effects. |
DOI of the first publication: | 10.1177/1745691617697076 |
URL of the first publication: | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691617697076 |
Link to this record: | hdl:20.500.11880/27826 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-29013 |
ISSN: | 1745-6916 1745-6924 |
Date of registration: | 17-Sep-2019 |
Faculty: | HW - Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft |
Department: | HW - Psychologie |
Professorship: | HW - Prof. Dr. Malte Friese |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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