Higher Self-Control Capacity Predicts Lower Anxiety-Impaired Cognition during Math Examinations

Bertrams, Alex; Baumeister, Roy F.; Englert, Chris

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00485

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“…Resource depletion, induced by POP, reduces not only the coping capacity of employees but also lowers their self-control (Gabriel, Koopman, Rosen, & Johnson, 2018). Lower self-control increases employee anxiety (Bertrams, Baumeister, & Englert, 2016), which provokes turnover intentions. In other words, the link between politics and withdrawal intentions is due to the experience of anxiety evoked by an employee's lower self-control induced by high POP.…”

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A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study of Moderated Mediation between Perceptions of Politics and Employee Turnover Intentions: The Role of Job Anxiety and Political Skills

Haider

Fatima

Pablos-Heredero

2020

Revista De Psicología Del Trabajo Y De Las Organizaciones

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This study examined a longitudinal moderated mediation model for answering the question of how and why perceptions of organizational politics influence turnover intentions, and how employees' political skills are contingent upon this relationship by reducing job anxiety. Data were gathered in three waves from employees in the banking sector (N = 347). The results of multiple linear regression analyses indicate that job anxiety mediates the relationship between perceptions of politics and turnover intentions, and employees' political skills reduce turnover intentions by weakening the effect of perceptions of politics on job anxiety. This study contributes to human resource management and organizational psychology literature by explaining moderated mediation mechanisms through which perceptions of organizational politics affect employee turnover intentions.

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A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study of Moderated Mediation between Perceptions of Politics and Employee Turnover Intentions: The Role of Job Anxiety and Political Skills

Haider

Fatima

Pablos-Heredero

2020

Revista De Psicología Del Trabajo Y De Las Organizaciones

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“…Therefore, they have to invest mental effort to solve the test items (Ackerman & Kanfer, 2009) and self-control to focus their attention on the items' content while inhibiting any test-irrelevant thoughts or emotions (cf. e.g., Bertrams, Baumeister, Englert, & Furley, 2015;Bertrams, Baumeister, & Englert, 2016).…”

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The need for self-control in achievement tests: Changes in students’ state self-control capacity and effort investment

2018

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In the present research, we investigated the relation between changes in students' state selfcontrol capacity and their motivational test-taking effort over the course of an achievement test. Thereby, we considered trait self-control as a major predictor of achievement-related behavior as a covariate. N = 1,840 apprentices repeatedly rated their state self-control capacity and the test-taking effort they invested while working on a 140-minute achievement test in mathematics and science. Using growth curve analyses, our results revealed correlated decreases in state selfcontrol capacity and the test-taking effort invested over the course of the test. Furthermore, we found that trait self-control helped to keep state self-control capacity and test-taking effort at a higher level over the course of the test. Our results support the assumption of the process model of self-control that waning self-control capacity is reflected in reduced motivational effort. Furthermore, our findings provide evidence that self-control might play a crucial role in students' test-taking behavior in large-scale assessment studies. By modeling changes in state self-control capacity and effort investment while considering trait self-control, we provide an alternative approach for investigating self-control-dependent processes and the underlying mechanisms of self-control in achievement situations.

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“…A few studies (e.g., [ 17 , 28 ]) indicate that students in a state of ego depletion have fewer mental capacities available to keep their attention consistently focused to operate on stored information when working on mathematical tasks (cf. [ 37 ]), while simultaneously inhibiting any distracting thoughts or emotions. This is in line with the findings of Englert and Bertrams [ 18 ], who showed that eighth-graders’ knowledge retrieval was undermined only when the students previously had to invest self-control to control their writing habits and therefore became ego depleted.…”

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“…Since a variety of studies found that ego depletion briefly undermines participants’ persistence (e.g., [ 32 , 33 , 42 ]) as well as their information processing (cf. [ 3 ]) and reasoning abilities [ 4 , 15 ] in mathematics (e.g., [ 3 , 28 , 37 ]), our dependent variables were time-on-task as an indicator of the invested test-taking effort (i.e., the motivation to achieve good performance) and test performance over the course of a 30-minute MPSR test. We expected depleted students to spend less average time and show worse mean performance on the MPSR test than non-depleted students.…”

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A new perspective on the interplay between self-control and cognitive performance: Modeling progressive depletion patterns

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Exerting self-control in a first task weakens self-control performance in a subsequent unrelated task (ego depletion). In self-control research new strategies are required to investigate the ego-depletion effect, which has recently been shown to be more fragile than previously assumed. Moreover, the relation between ego depletion and trait self-control is still unclear, as various studies have reported heterogeneous findings concerning the interplay of both variables. We addressed these lacunas by drawing on a sample of N = 120 students, who participated in two test sessions. In the first test session, we assessed trait self-control and several control variables. The second test session followed an experimental design and tested the effects of ego depletion on invested effort and cognitive performance trajectories in an ecologically valid computer-based assessment setting (i.e., a 30-minute mathematical problem-solving and reasoning test). Trait self-control was then used as a moderator of the ego-depletion effect. Combining an established ego-depletion paradigm (i.e., the sequential-task paradigm) with multilevel modeling of time-on-task and performance changes, our results indicate (1) that trait self-control predicted the motivation to solve cognitive tasks, (2) that ego depletion led to a progressive performance decrease, and (3) that the negative effect of ego depletion on performance was stronger for students with high trait self-control. Additional analyses revealed that our results could not be alternatively explained by fatigue effects. All effects were robust even after controlling for the students’ cognitive abilities, which are known to be closely related to mathematical performance. Our results provide evidence that the self-control invested in order to keep performance at a consistently high level wanes over time. By modeling progressive ego-depletion effects while considering trait self-control, we provide an alternative approach that may help future researchers to investigate the underlying mechanisms of self-control.

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Higher Self-Control Capacity Predicts Lower Anxiety-Impaired Cognition during Math Examinations

Cited by 22 publications

References 71 publications

A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study of Moderated Mediation between Perceptions of Politics and Employee Turnover Intentions: The Role of Job Anxiety and Political Skills

A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study of Moderated Mediation between Perceptions of Politics and Employee Turnover Intentions: The Role of Job Anxiety and Political Skills

The need for self-control in achievement tests: Changes in students’ state self-control capacity and effort investment

A new perspective on the interplay between self-control and cognitive performance: Modeling progressive depletion patterns

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