Strength Model of Self-Control

Also known as: Ego depletion · Self-regulation · BSCS framework

Self-control is the capacity to override or change one's inner responses, as well as to interrupt undesired behavioral tendencies and refrain from acting on them. The strength model treats self-control as a limited resource that can be depleted by exertion (ego depletion) and strengthened through practice, analogous to a muscle.

Source:

Baumeister, R. F., Bratslavsky, E., Muraven, M., & Tice, D. M. (1998). Ego depletion: Is the active self a limited resource? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(5), 1252-1265. Tangney, J. P., Baumeister, R. F., & Boone, A. L. (2004). High self-control predicts good adjustment, less pathology, better grades, and interpersonal success. Journal of Personality, 72(2), 271-324.

DOI:

10.1111/j.0022-3506.2004.00263.x