Outsourcing Self-Regulation
Outsourcing Self-Regulation
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DOI：
10.1177/0956797610397955
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发表时间：
2011-03-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Finkel, Eli J.
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作者：
Fitzsimons, Grainne M.;Finkel, Eli J.
三项研究证明了一种新的现象——自我调节外包——在这种现象中，考虑其他人如何能够为既定目标提供帮助（即帮助）会削弱为实现目标而付出努力的动机。在实验1中，那些考虑伴侣如何帮助他们实现健康目标（而不是职业目标）的参与者计划在接下来的一周内在健康目标上花费更少的时间和精力。这种模式在耗尽的参与者中比在未耗尽的参与者中更强烈。在实验2中，与两种控制条件下的参与者相比，考虑伴侣如何帮助他们实现学业成就目标的参与者拖延得更多，留给自己完成学业任务的时间更少。这种模式在被告知拖延会耗尽他们完成学术任务的资源的参与者身上更为明显，而在被告知拖延不会耗尽他们完成学业的资源的参与者身上则更为明显。在实验3中，与没有减少努力的参与者相比，那些在想到重要他人后减少努力的参与者对那个人的关系承诺更高。讨论了共享（或交互式）自我监管的可能性。
Three studies demonstrate a novel phenomenon-self-regulatory outsourcing-in which thinking about how other people can be instrumental (i.e., helpful) for a given goal undermines motivation to expend effort on that goal. In Experiment 1, participants who thought about how their partner helped them with health goals (as opposed to career goals) planned to spend less time and effort on health goals in the upcoming week. This pattern was stronger for depleted participants than for nondepleted participants. In Experiment 2, participants who thought about how their partner helped them with academic-achievement goals procrastinated more, leaving themselves less time for an academic task, than did participants in two control conditions. This pattern was stronger for participants who were told that procrastinating would drain their resources for the academic task than for participants who were told that procrastinating would not drain their resources for that task. In Experiment 3, participants who decreased their effort after thinking of an instrumental significant other reported higher relationship commitment to that individual than did participants who did not decrease their effort. The possibility for shared (or transactive) self-regulation is discussed.