Self-regulation is a core aspect of human functioning that helps facilitate the successful
pursuit of personal goals. There has been a proliferation of theories and models describing …

Personality psychology, which seeks to study individual differences in thoughts, feelings,
and behaviors that persist over time and place, has experienced a renaissance in the last …

Persistence in and timely disengagement from personal goals are core components of
successful self-regulation and therefore relevant to well-being and performance. In the …

Smartphones cause self-control challenges in people's everyday lives. Supporting this
notion, our studies corroborate that trait self-control is negatively associated (1) with …

Employees around the globe experience manifold challenges to maintain job performance
during the so‐called work‐from‐home experiment caused by the COVID‐19 crisis. Whereas …

Objective What strategies do people use to resist desires in their day‐to‐day life? How
effective are these strategies? Do people use different strategies for different desires? This …

Self-control describes the processes by which individuals control their habits, desires, and
impulses in the service of long-term goals. Research has identified important components of …

Our understanding of multiple goals has been advanced through the lines of research that
focus on their pursuit of academic achievement goals and of academic and social goals …

Trait self-control is highly valued, often equated with moral righteousness and associated
with numerous positive life outcomes. This paper challenges the conventional conflation of …

Setting high and specific goals is one of the best-established management tools to increase
performance and motivation. However, in recent years, potential downsides of goal-setting …