Seeing the Forest Beyond the Trees: A Construal-Level Approach to Self-Control
Seeing the Forest Beyond the Trees: A Construal-Level Approach to Self-Control
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1751-9004.2008.00118.x
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发表时间：
2008-05-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Fujita, Kentaro
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作者：
Fujita, Kentaro
自我控制失败是人们面临的一个普遍而令人不安的问题。本文回顾了自我控制的心理模型，并描述了一种基于解释水平理论的新综合方法（例如，Trope & Liberman，2003）。这种心理层面的观点认为，人们对事件的主观心理表征或表征会影响自我控制。具体来说，更抽象的、全局的（高层次的）目标会促进自我控制的成功，而更具体的、局部的（低层次的）目标往往会导致自我控制的失败。也就是说，当人们看到树林之外的森林时，自我控制会得到促进。这篇文章调查了一些研究结果，这些研究结果表明，在高水平和低水平的群体中，事件的发生促进了自我控制。这篇文章还讨论了如何从心理层面的角度促进对自我控制失败的理解。
Self-control failure is a ubiquitous and troubling problem people face. This article reviews psychological models of self-control and describes a new integrative approach based on construal level theory (e.g., Trope & Liberman, 2003). This construal-level perspective proposes that people's subjective mental construals or representations of events impacts self-control. Specifically, more abstract, global (high-level) construals promote self-control success, whereas more concrete, local (low-level) construals tend to lead to self-control failure. That is, self-control is promoted when people see the proverbial forest beyond the trees. This article surveys research findings that demonstrate that construing events at high-level versus low-level construals promotes self-control. This article also discusses how a construal-level perspective promotes understanding of self-control failures.