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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"willpower"”.
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Testing the strength model of self-control: Does willpower resemble a muscle?
The strength model of self-control predicts that when people exert self-control, they should show performance decrements on subsequent self-control tasks. However, it is possible that this pattern of behaviour is confined to specific experimental procedures, which amplifies the effect. The aims of …
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What is willpower? A qualitative exploration of how people struggling to lose weight understand the term
… People often attribute being overweight to low willpower. However, the meaning of the term ‘willpower’ has gradually changed and is contested amongst academics. Research using qualitative approaches to explore how people understand willpower is limited, but unquestioned understandings about …
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Effects of a group counseling career intervention on the hopefulness and future orientation of at-risk middle school students
… career intervention on levels of total hope, willpower (agency), waypower (pathways), and future orientation of at-risk middle school students attending an urban middle school in Southeast Michigan. This true experimental, randomized, pretest-posttest control group design compared the …
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Dynamics of Momentary Perceived Self-Regulation Abilities as Novel Predictors of Overeating in Daily Life
… perceptions of their self-efficacy and current willpower, stronger beliefs that cravings can be controlled and a greater ability to tolerate distress. The current study examined the dynamics of and momentary predictors of overeating using a 7-day EMA protocol to study unsuccessful restrained …
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Ego Depletion and Boredom: Does Boredom Compromise Future Acts of Self-control?
… self-control when participants believed that willpower is unlimited or limited. After completing one of two questionnaires, which induced the belief that willpower is either unlimited or limited, participants then completed one of three tasks. The tasks consisted of a non-ego depleting …
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Beauty and the treatment of addiction
… Because the problem is an inadequacy of willpower, cognitive treatment methods are unlikely to be successful. An aesthetic conception of treatment, which appeals to a common human aesthetic sense for the beautiful, offers a non-cognitive method that is universally communicable. This would …
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Setting the Tone for Corporate Social Responsibility in Kenya- What Does the New Mining Act Have to Say?
… Whether there is sufficient governmental willpower, combined with the necessary human and technological resources, to maintain and enforce the established laws is yet to be determined.
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Help-Seeking for Depression in Rural Women: A Community Portrait
… criteria; 2) overcoming depression using willpower; 3) connection of depression to abuse and violence, and 4) masking the inner world of depression. The following themes related to the nature of help-seeking emerged from the data: 1) family role in help-seeking; 2) insider/outsider status …
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What Happens When You Let the Hunger Games Loose? An Evaluation of Temptation Bundling as a Behavior Change for Good Strategy in the StepUp Program
… long-term benefits but require some exertion of willpower, is a novel behavior change strategy. To date, despite the short and long-term benefits of such an approach, only one study has evaluated its efficacy in the field. This work found that restricting participants’ listening of tempting …
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Empowering Achievement: Investigating Leadership, Agency, and Access for First-Generation College Students
… that first-generation students struggle with the willpower to continue through school due to constant barriers and a lack of support and resources. This leads to feelings of imposter syndrome, and students who utilized resources effectively had higher self-efficacy and enjoyment of their higher …
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Towards National Identity: Addiction, Subjectivity, and American Literary Culture
… been defined according to American beliefs about willpower, productivity, morality, racial and economic disparity, and social health. In the contemporary world of American consumerism and late capitalist expenditure, addiction signifies everyday life and normative American identity as much as it …
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Attitudes to obesity : health professionals' views and practice
… views of the causes of overweight (mood, lack of willpower) and the responsibilities of overweight people. The pattern of attitudes for both groups was mixed, but health professionals' responses were more likely than dieters' to be influenced by the level of severity of the weight problem. The …
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Accounting for health and illness: A social psychological investigation
… "individual autonomy", 'Theism'; and "Willpower". These accounts are assumed to operate both within individual subjectivity and popular discourse, offering people a variety of complementary 'texts' with which to weave narratives, drawing upon different 'texts" according to situational …
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Family Structure and Child Malnutrition in China: Three Essays
… environment is much more important than willpower based on knowledge in shaping one's obesity-related risk behavior. Although the fertility level has been lowered by One Child Policy, resource dilution effect still affects girls' nutrition status, especially for those exposed to poverty …
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Examining the effects of implicit and internalized weight bias on physical activity participation for women in larger bodies
… beliefs that people in larger bodies have low willpower, are unmotivated, and are personally responsible for their elevated weight. Internalized weight stigma is the extent to which social perceptions of weight stigma are attributed to the self by people in larger bodies. Dual process models …
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Increasing Physical Activity in Omani Adult Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Attending Primary Health Care Facilities, MUSCAT
… those with no reported barriers to PA. ‘Lack of willpower’ (in both males and females), ‘Lack of resources’ and ‘Lack of social support’ (more in females) were the most frequently reported barriers.<br/><br/>When participants and health care professionals were asked about acceptable intervention …
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Towards ‘Skill’ and ‘Will’: Using Hope-infused Strategy Instruction in the English Writing Classroom at Chinese Universities
… to flourish by actively encouraging students’ ‘willpower’ in addition to their ‘skill’. Therefore, this PhD project tackles both ‘skill’ and ‘will’ in EFL learning, which are conceptualised as ‘strategy’ and ‘hope’, respectively. The latter, based on Snyder’s Hope Theory from Positive …
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Essays on Self-Control
<p>This dissertation concerns methods to test whether or not self-control</p><p>is costly, the form of temptation, and the affects different assumptions</p><p>about costly self-control and temptation have on optimal borrowing</p><p>and saving mechanisms. The second chapter shows that costly …