From intentions to action: An integrative review of action control theory and research

Koole, Sander L.; Jostmann, Nils B.; Baumann, Nicola

doi:10.1016/bs.aesp.2023.07.001

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“…Future work may also examine the relationship of consistent thinking mode use with other individual differences. For example, action-oriented people tend to quickly enact new intentions whereas state-oriented people tend to reflect on their current situation and try to find ways out of the situation (Koole et al, 2023;Kuhl, 1994). Thus, because mental contrasting helps people to act, action-oriented people may be more likely to habitually use mental contrasting.…”

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Self-regulatory thought across time and domains.

Sevincer,

Feller,

Wallot

2024

Motivation Science

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Section: Consistency In Thinking Modes As An Individual Differencementioning

confidence: 99%

Self-regulatory thought across time and domains.

Sevincer,

Feller,

Wallot

2024

Motivation Science

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“…The disposition of action versus state orientation explains individual differences in the ability to self-regulate affect [3,7,8]. A plethora of findings show that, when confronted with stressful conditions, action-oriented people are able to down-regulate negative affect and maintain volitional control over their thoughts and actions, whereas state-oriented people are unable to downregulate negative affect and get stuck in uncontrollable rumination [9][10][11].…”

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Mindfully missing myself: Induced mindfulness causes alienation among poor self-regulators

Thakur,

Baumann

2024

PLoS ONE

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Mindfulness is a popular technique that helps people to get closer to their self. However, recent findings indicate that mindfulness may not benefit everybody. In the present research, we hypothesized that mindfulness promotes alienation from the self among individuals with low abilities to self-regulate affect (state-oriented individuals) but not among individuals with high abilities to self-regulate affect (action-oriented individuals). In two studies with participants who were mostly naïve to mindfulness practices (70% indicated no experience; N1 = 126, 42 men, 84 women, 0 diverse, aged 17–86 years, Mage = 31.87; N2 = 108, 30 men, 75 women, 3 diverse, aged 17–69 years, Mage = 28.00), we tested a mindfulness group (five-minute mindfulness exercise) against a control group (five-minute text reading). We operationalized alienation as lower consistency in repeated preference judgments and a lower tendency to adopt intrinsic over extrinsic goal recommendations. Results showed that, among state-oriented participants, mindfulness led to significantly lower consistency of preference judgments (Study 1) and lower adoption of intrinsic over extrinsic goals (Study 2) compared to text reading. The alienating effect was absent among action-oriented participants. Thus, mindfulness practice may alienate psychologically vulnerable people from their self and hamper access to preferences and intrinsic goals. We discuss our findings within Personality-Systems-Interactions (PSI) theory.

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From intentions to action: An integrative review of action control theory and research

Cited by 2 publications

References 244 publications

Self-regulatory thought across time and domains.

Self-regulatory thought across time and domains.

Mindfully missing myself: Induced mindfulness causes alienation among poor self-regulators

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