Front. Psychol.
 2014
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00647
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“When the going gets tough, who keeps going?” Depletion sensitivity moderates the ego-depletion effect

Stefanie Salmon
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Marieke A. Adriaanse2,
Emely de Vet3
et al.

Abstract: Self-control relies on a limited resource that can get depleted, a phenomenon that has been labeled ego-depletion. We argue that individuals may differ in their sensitivity to depleting tasks, and that consequently some people deplete their self-control resource at a faster rate than others. In three studies, we assessed individual differences in depletion sensitivity, and demonstrate that depletion sensitivity moderates ego-depletion effects. The Depletion Sensitivity Scale (DSS) was employed to assess deplet… Show more

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“…Similarly, participants who reported being more sensitive to depletion were also more likely to rate that they were going to perform poorly in the potentially stressful speech task. These findings extend previous research that has shown that depletion sensitivity can impact actual task performance following ego depletion (e.g., Salmon et al, 2014). Therefore, with previous and present findings, it is suggested that the ability and time taken to deplete an individual may vary due to depletion sensitivity, this further supports the conflict regarding time to depletion and task order.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…Similarly, participants who reported being more sensitive to depletion were also more likely to rate that they were going to perform poorly in the potentially stressful speech task. These findings extend previous research that has shown that depletion sensitivity can impact actual task performance following ego depletion (e.g., Salmon et al, 2014). Therefore, with previous and present findings, it is suggested that the ability and time taken to deplete an individual may vary due to depletion sensitivity, this further supports the conflict regarding time to depletion and task order.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…So far, little is known about the relationship between individual differences in theories about willpower and other individual difference variables in the nomological network. Study 3 of the present research together with previous research show that the correlation between a limited-resource theory and trait self-control ranges from Ϫ.17 to Ϫ.52 (see Footnote 3; Job et al, 2010Job et al, , 2015Salmon et al, 2014). Furthermore, Study 3 showed a significant correlation between a limited-resource theory and achievement motivation (r ϭ Ϫ.42).…”
Section: Future Directions and Unresolved Issuessupporting
confidence: 73%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…Again, there was no indication of gender main and interaction effects on performance in the e-crossing task (all p>0.20). Thus, in line with others [21,33,34] we assumed that the differences in complexity of the e-crossing task between experimental and control groups translated into differences in cognitive load.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 85%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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