The relation between Self-Control, Need for Cognition and Action Orientation in secondary school students: A conceptual replication study.

ABSTRACT: Self-Control can be defined as the self-initiated effortful process that enables individuals to resist temptation impulses. It is relevant for conducting a healthy and successful life. For university students, Grass et al. found that Need for Cognition as the tendency to engage in and enjoy thinking, and Action Orientation as the flexible recruitment of control resources in cognitively demanding situations, predict Self-Control. Further, Action Orientation partially mediated the relation between Need for Cognition and Self-Control. In the present conceptual replication study, we investigated the relations between Self-Control, Need for Cognition, and Action Orientation in adolescence (N = 892 9th graders) as a pivotal period for the development of self-control. We replicated the findings t

SUBMITTER: Colling J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10256181 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature