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    Self-report and behavioural approaches to the measurement of self-control: Are we assessing the same construct?

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    Authors
    Allom, Vanessa
    Panetta, G.
    Mullan, Barbara
    Hagger, Martin
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Allom, V. and Panetta, G. and Mullan, B. and Hagger, M. 2016. Self-report and behavioural approaches to the measurement of self-control: Are we assessing the same construct? Personality and Individual Differences. 90: pp. 137-142.
    Source Title
    Personality and Individual Differences
    DOI
    10.1016/j.paid.2015.10.051
    ISSN
    0191-8869
    School
    School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23375
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The capacity for self-control has been consistently linked to successful execution of health behaviour. However, a lack of consensus remains in the conceptualisation and measurement of the construct. Notably, self-report measures relate to behavioural measures of self-control only weakly or not at all. The aim of the current research was to examine the relationship between self-report and behavioural measures of self-control to determine whether these differentially relate to health behaviour. Participants (N = 146) completed questionnaire and behavioural measures of self-control, and reported their physical activity. A direct effect of self-reported self-control on physical activity was observed, qualified by an interaction between self-reported self-control and behavioural measures, whereby greater self-reported self-control was associated with greater engagement in physical activity among those who performed poorly on the stop-signal task and those who performed well on the Stroop task. These results appear to indicate that the combination of trait self-control and behavioural factors leads to facilitative or debilitative effects on behaviour. Self-report and behavioural measures of self-control do not appear to assess the same elements of self-control and should not be used interchangeably. It is suggested that these measurement modes reflect a difference between trait self-control and specific self-control processes.

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