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Effects of Ego Depletion, Mindfulness Strategy, and Grit on Attention and Persistence
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Effects of Ego Depletion, Mindfulness Strategy, and Grit on Attention and Persistence
Yazar:
Zhu, Henry, author.
ISBN:
9780438107625
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1 electronic resource (102 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: B.
Advisors: Charles A. Dill Committee members: Jeffrey J. Froh; John C. Guthman; Merry McVey-Noble; Norman Miller.
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The construct of self-regulation, or the ability to regulate thoughts, behaviors, and emotions in the face of impulses, has been implicated as a critical factor in goal-striving. Self-regulation has an adaptive function in managing our responses to temptations, bad habits, or maladaptive behavior patterns. Unfortunately, self-regulation fails due to a process commonly referred to in the literature as ego depletion, or a self-regulatory depletion (SRD). When SRD occurs, individuals are more likely to succumb to temptations and give up on goal pursuit. Historically, SRD referred to this inability to self-regulate after strenuous use of self-regulatory resources (Baumeister, 1998). In other words, prolonged use of self-regulation was thought to lead to a temporal exhaustion of the system.
However, recent literature suggests that SRD occurs due to diminished ability to focus our attention and find motivation to persevere (Inzlicht & Schmeichel, 2012). When given proper attention and motivation, individuals will be able to flexibly and successfully attain their goals. Studies in SRD literature suggest that individuals lack meaningful ways to alleviate such daunting effects. Therefore, it was important to test strategies such as mindfulness as potentially effective means to counteract SRD.
The present study was designed to clarify the construct of SRD and whether mindfulness will beneficially affect participants affected by SRD. A sample of 123 Hofstra undergraduate students ages 17 to 23 participated (74% female, 26% male). Adapted from Friese, Messner, & Schaffner's study (2012) participants watched a video containing emotionally evocative scenes and were asked either to express their emotions (no SRD) or suppress them (SRD). Afterwards, they were either given a connect-the-dots task (no mindfulness) or given a deep breathing exercise with simple instructions to breathe deeply for five seconds and breathe out for five seconds. (mindfulness). Participants were measured using a Stroop task (attention) or an impossible anagram task (persistence). It was hypothesized that those experiencing the effects of SRD would have negatively affected persistence capabilities. It was hypothesized that mindfulness would positively affect participants' attention. Mindfulness has been implicated in the literature to have remedial or shielding properties that may counteract the effects of SRD. Grit was hypothesized to be a continuous dispositional factor that would reveal interactions between SRD and mindfulness.
Contrary to what was hypothesized, participants in the mindfulness condition (M = 644.90, SD = 353.110) had significantly greater time persistence on the anagram task than those who were subjected to the no mindfulness condition (M = 481.17, SD = 304.707), F(1,119) = 7.541, p = .007, o 2 = .035. Participants who experienced the brief breathing exercise persisted longer than those who received an active control. Additionally, contrary to what was predicted, the participants who were subject to SRD ( M = 9756.977, SD = 218.395) demonstrated significantly lower latencies than those who were subject to no SRD (M = 1089.590, SD = 322.384), F(1,112) = 4.456, p = .037, o2 = .012. Participants who experienced SRD had better attention on the Stroop task, and did not sacrifice any accuracy while performing faster. Correlational analyses revealed that self-control was highly associated with grit. Within the SRD and mindfulness condition, mindfulness was significantly and negatively associated with grit. It is possible that within participants that were aware of their depletion, they required mindfulness to make up for their lack of grit. In the same vein, those who had more grit required less mindfulness to persist.
The results of this study allow us to peer into the constructs of SRD and mindfulness. SRD was traditionally thought of as a muscle, but this study along with others (Inzlicht & Schmeichel, 2012; Hagger et al., 2016; Lurquin & Miyake, 2017) directly contradict that notion. It is time to revise the construct by way of clear operationalization of its effects. Similarly, it will be crucial to understand how mindfulness affects individuals apart from the traditional "attention regulation" approach (Holzel et al., 2011; Loucks et al. 2015; Goleman & Davidson, 2017) that is commonly regarded as a strategy to solely hone one's cognitive abilities. Mindfulness is effective in clinical settings to help clients become more non-judgmental and non-reactive to setbacks (Hofmann et al., 2010). Therefore, it is important to give careful consideration in clarifying and understanding how mindfulness allows clients to continue persisting towards their goals. The construct of grit continues to require operationalization and delineation of its definition and effects.
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