11,827 research outputs found
Conservation of resources theory and the 'strength' model of self-control: conceptual overlap and commonalities
No full textI am pleased to introduce the current issue of Stress and Health which contains a seminal conceptual review by Chen, Westman, and Hobfoll (2015). In the review, the authors examine the application of Hobfoll's (1989, 2001, 2002) conservation of resources (COR) theory to explain resilience and stress in organizational contexts. The article is a landmark publication that fits well with the mission of Stress and Health (Probst & Hagger, 2014) as it integrates one of the leading theories of stress with current theoretical approaches to resilience, provides an evidence-base for the integration, moves thinking forward by proposing some clear testable hypotheses in the field and sets out an agenda for future research. As a researcher interested in the role of self-regulation (Hagger, 2010a) within models of motivation (e.g., Chatzisarantis, Hagger, & Brickell, 2008; Hagger & Chatzisarantis, 2011) and social cognition (e.g., Chatzisarantis, Hagger, & Smith, 2007; Hagger, Anderson, Kyriakaki, & Darkings, 2007; Hagger & Chatzisarantis, 2006; Hagger, Chatzisarantis, et al., 2007; Hagger & Luszczynska, 2014; Head & Noar, 2014; Noar & Head, 2014; Sniehotta, Presseau, & Araújo-Soares, 2014), and its effects on promoting good health and minimizing ill health (Hagger, 2013a, 2014a), including the maladaptive effects of stress-related health outcomes (Hagger, 2010b, 2014b), I saw important parallels in the theoretical tenets of COR theory outlined in Chen et al.'s (2015) review and current theoretical models of self-regulation. In this editorial, I will take the opportunity to briefly outline the conceptual overlaps and commonalities between COR theory and a leading model of self-regulation that has received a lot of attention in the social psychological, health and stress literature: the strength or limited-resource model of self-control (Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Muraven, & Tice, 1998; Baumeister, Vohs, & Tice, 2007; Hagger, Wood, Stiff, & Chatzisarantis, 2009, 2010a, 2010b). Given the central unifying premise of resources across these two theoretical approaches, I will examine how they could be integrated, a process that I have considered important for theory in the field of social and health psychology to move forward (Chan & Hagger, 2012; Hagger, 2009b; Hagger & Chatzisarantis, 2009a, 2009b, 2014a), and how they may be applied to provide parsimonious but comprehensive explanations of health behaviour, particularly stress responses. I will also suggest how the integrated approach incorporates resilience as a key moderator of the process of behavioural regulation in health contexts.Full Tex
Retired or not, the theory of planned behaviour will always be with us
No full textThere was a time when the mere mention of the theory of planned behaviour (Ajzen, 1985, 1991) during the presentation of a paper at a health psychology or behavioural medicine conference would be accompanied by groans among audience members. Why? I propose three possible reasons. First, there are so many studies that have adopted the theory. It has permeated the investigation of intentional behaviour across a multitude of different behaviours and behavioural contexts. People had become sick of the sight of it by virtue of the sheer numbers of studies! Second, studies adopting the theory were all more or less the same bar the different behavioural context. Researchers had become fixated with a certain operationalisation of the theory measures and similar prospective, correlational designs to ‘test’ its premises. There was no variation in the rigid, rather mechanistic approach to the tests, which was not just uninformative but boring. Third, it was very ‘easy’ research to do. One could collect a relatively large data-set using the correlational design and survey measures quite quickly and findings usually supported theoretical predictions. The research did not offer much that was novel. The preponderance of these tests has meant that a large body of research ‘testing’ the predictions of the theory has been amassed with relatively little heterogeneity in measures and study design. This has the advantage of permitting many cumulative syntheses of the theory (e.g., Albarracín, Johnson, Fishbein, & Muellerleile, 2001; Armitage & Conner, 2001; Cooke, Dahdah, Norman, & French, 2015; Hagger & Chatzisarantis, 2009; Hagger, Chatzisarantis, & Biddle, 2002; McEachan, Conner, Taylor, & Lawton, 2012; Rich, Brandes, Mullan, & Hagger, 2015). While the large cumulative tests of the theory is a strength, it has also highlighted some clear problems, many of which have been identified and discussed by Sniehotta, Presseau, and Araújo-Soares (2014) in their recent editorial appearing in Health Psychology Review. Their critique and suggestion to ‘retire’ the theory provoked considerable debate and controversy and when I circulated the editorial to 10 leading researchers in social and health psychology and asked them to comment, there was a unanimous affirmation. I am pleased to present their commentaries (Abraham, 2015; Ajzen, 2015; Armitage, 2015; Conner, 2015; Gollwitzer & Oettingen, 2015; Hall, 2015; Ogden, 2015; Rhodes, 2015; Schwarzer, 2015; Trafimow, 2014) and Sniehotta, Presseau, and Araújo-Soares's (2015) rebuttal in the current issue of Health Psychology Review.Full Tex
Recommended from our members
Time to Set a New Research Agenda for Ego Depletion and Self-Control
No full textThe conceptualization of self-control capacity as a domain-general limited resource, and the accompanying state of low self-control resource, known as the ego depletion effect, has received considerable attention in social psychology literature. The effect has also been widely publicized in popular media largely due to its elegant simplicity and intuitive appeal. Since its inception (Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Muraven, & Tice, 1998; Muraven, Tice, & Baumeister, 1998), the ego depletion effect has been a “hot” topic of research and has stimulated hundreds of laboratory studies to test the effect (Hagger, Wood, Stiff, & Chatzisarantis, 2010).Full Tex
Wang_Supplemental_Material – Supplemental material for Ironic Effects of Thought Suppression: A Meta-Analysis
No full textSupplemental material, Wang_Supplemental_Material for Ironic Effects of Thought Suppression: A Meta-Analysis by Deming (Adam) Wang, Martin S. Hagger and Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis in Perspectives on Psychological Science</p
Unsuccessful attempts to replicate effects of self control operations and glucose on ego-depletion pose an interesting research question that demands explanation
No full textThe hypothesis that sugar-containing drinks counteract depletion of self-control or ego resources is elegant and provocative because it entails that the origins of ego-energy and self-control operations can be traced to a physiological substrate. However, this hypothesis has not withstood scientific scrutiny. Lange and Eggert presented two unsuccessful attempts to replicate effects of glucose on ego-depletion. Chatzisarantis and Hagger argued that inconsistent findings may be due to experimental designs that expose participants to similar acts of self-control. This methodology may not provide a rigorous test of the counteracting effects of glucose on ego-depletion because it does not control for factors (i.e., motivation) that interfere with glucose effects. In this article, we address Lange's comments and explore the possibility that findings reported by Lange and Eggert's and Hagger and Chatzisarantis' studies are consistent. In addition, we discuss a factor that researchers may wish to take into consideration when designing experiments that aim to test effects of glucose, or glucose rinsing, on ego-depletion. This factor is related to ego-depleting value of self-control tasks
Predicting moral attitudes and antisocial behavior in young team sport athletes. A self-determination theory perspective
No full textIdentifying the factors associated with prosocial and antisocial behaviors in youth sport may provide evidence to inform interventions aimed at promoting prosocial behaviors and minimizing rule transgressions in young athletes. We investigated relations among social-contextual factors (e.g., social support), personal motivational factors (e.g., psychological need satisfaction and motivation), young athletes’ attitudes toward prosocial (e.g., keeping winning in proportion) and antisocial (e.g., acceptance of cheating and gamesmanship) behaviors, and their actual rule violations during matches in two samples of athletes. Participants in Sample 1 were young team sport athletes (N = 355) and participants in Sample 2 were young male futsal players (N = 296). Athletes in Sample 1 completed validated self-report measures of perceived autonomy support, basic need satisfaction, and autonomous and controlled motivation from self-determination theory, moral attitudes, and past cheating behaviors. Athletes in Sample 2 completed identical measures and two additional behavioral measures: athletes’ self-reported number of yellow cards received during competition in the last 6 months and the number of yellow cards athletes received from referees in the subsequent 2 months from competition records. We found significant relations between psychological need satisfaction and self-determined motivation, and athletes’ moral attitudes in both samples. These effects held when statistically controlling for past behavior. Importantly, our prospective analysis of Sample 2 indicated that attitudes toward antisocial behaviors predicted athletes’ rule violations during subsequent tournament matches. Findings indicate that promoting autonomous motivation and need satisfaction through autonomy support may foster attitudes toward prosocial behaviors, and minimize rule transgressions, in young athlete
Redefining habits and linking habits with other implicit processes
No full textIn their commentaries on Hagger (2019), Gardner, Rebar, and Lally (2019) and Phillips (2019) provide welcome debate on the conceptualization and operation of habits in physical activity. In this response, I extend their comments by (i) calling for a redefining of habits to encompass contemporary views of habit, and (ii) suggesting that descriptions of physical activity habits should make reference to their relations with other implicit constructs that reflect automatic processes. Specifically, I contend that extant definitions of habits for complex behaviors like physical activity should move away from definitions of unitary responses to specific cues or contexts, and, focus on ‘macro’ expressions of the behavior that comprise multiple sub-actions, which can each be controlled by habitual or deliberative processing. It may also be useful for definitions to make the distinction between habitual instigation and execution, affording greater precision in descriptions of the processes that generate habitual behaviors. Finally, physical activity habits as cue-action relations are unlikely to be enacted in the absence of activation of other implicit processes, consistent with behavioral schema. Recognizing this, I contend that descriptions of habit should accommodate these links, and that they may be useful in elaborating on the processes by which habits determine subsequent physical activity behavior.peerReviewe
Implementation intention and planning interventions in health psychology (Supplemental Materials)
No full textSupplemental materials for research article:
Hagger, M. S., Luszczynska, A., de Wit, J., Benyamini, Y., Burkert, S., Chamberland, P.-E., Chater, A. M., Dombrowski, S., van Dongen, A., French, D. P., Gauchet, A., Hankonen, N., Karekla, M., Kinney, A. Y., Kwasnicka, D., Lo, S. H., López-Roíg, S., Meslot, C., Marques, M. M., Neter, E., M., Plass A., Potthoff, S., Rennie, L., Scholz, U., Stadler, G., Stolte, E., A., ten Hoor G., Verhoeven, A. A. C., Wagner, M., Oettingen, G., Sheeran, P. and Gollwitzer, P. M. (in press). Implementation intention and planning interventions in health psychology: Recommendations from the Synergy expert group for research and practice. Psychology & Health. doi:10.1080/08870446.2016.114671
Effects of Habit and Intention on Behavior: Meta-Analysis and Test of Key Moderators
No full textSupplemental materials for the meta-analysis of the habit construct (Hagger et al., 2023
From perceived autonomy support to intentional behaviour. Testing an integrated model in three healthy-eating behaviours
No full textA motivational model integrating self-determination theory, the theory of planned behaviour, and the health action process approach was tested in three samples in three behavioural contexts: fruit and vegetable, breakfast, and snack consumption. Perceived support for autonomous (self-determined) forms of motivation from parents and autonomous motivation from self-determination theory were hypothesised to predict intention and behaviour indirectly via the mediation of attitude and perceived behavioural control from the theory of planned behaviour. It was also expected that planning strategies would mediate the effect of intention on behaviour. Relations in the proposed models were expected to be similar across the behaviours. A two-wave prospective design was adopted. Three samples of high-school students (total N = 1041; 59.60% female; M age = 17.13 years ± 1.57) completed measures of perceived autonomy support, autonomous motivation, theory of planned behaviour constructs, planning strategies and behaviour for each of the three behavioural contexts. Three months later, 816 participants (62,24% female; M age: 17.13 years, SD = 1.58) of the initial sample self-reported their behaviour referred to the previous three months. Structural equation models provided support for the key hypothesised effects of the proposed model for the three health-related behaviours. Two direct effects were significantly different across the three behaviours: the effect of perceived autonomy support on perceived behavioural control and the effect of attitude on intention. In addition, planning strategies mediated the effect of intention on behaviour in fruit and vegetable sample only. Findings extend knowledge of the processes by which psychological antecedents from the theories affect energy-balance related behaviour
- …
