Journal Article Assignment

Journal Article Assignment

Introduction

In the main article that is the subject of this paper, “Self-Regulation and Personality: How Interventions Increase Regulatory Success, and HowDepletion Moderates the Effects of Traits on Behavior”, Baumeister et al. (2006) present their main argument which is mianly based on how interventions and regulations affect the personality of a person. The paper mainly conducts 5 different studies and then analyzes the result across each individual study for the purpose of determining how willpower is essential in meeting established objectives.

General Problem

The general problem that the paper discusses is related to how self-regulation and interventions affect the traits and behavioral patterns of humans.

Hypotheses

When the resource of willpower is limited, people are unable to deliberatively choose or inhibit responses, and they become locked into repeating their habits.

Methodology

A random sample population was used for the study and they were assigned various tasks that were to be fulfilled in within a specific timeframe. The environmental and various other factors surrounding the participants were then regulated in such a manner so as to affect their performances and, specifically, their willpower. The effects of willpower on the performance of individuals were then recorded.

Discussion

According to the author, the differences in the personalities of different individuals are the result of repeated responses that are the result of familiar cues in performance. In this regard, the article builds upon two theories that have previously been researched - volition and ego depletion (Neal et al., 2013, p. 959-975). According to the article, the central message of the ego-depletion model is that the capacity for self-control of the Spirit depends on a person who is fed by a general (self-regulation) resource (Baumeister et al., 2006, p. 1773-1801). The resource is reduced by sequential tasks that require willpower regardless of other factors such as physical exhaustion. This concept is ...