Paper Title
Self-Regulation and Self-Presentation: Regulatory Resource Depletion Impairs Impression Management and Effortful Self-Presentation Depletes Regulatory Resources
Keywords
- Self-Regulation
- Self-Presentation
- Impression Management
- Regulatory Resource Depletion
- Counter-Normative Behavior
- Interpersonal Activity
- Ego Depletion
- Social Norms
- Effortful Self-Control
- Dispositional Patterns
- Interpersonal Functions
- Impression Formation
- Self-Control
- Normative Behavior
- Resource Depletion
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Publication Info
Volume: 88 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 632–657
Published On
April, 2005
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Abstract
Self-presentation may require self-regulation, especially when familiar or dispositional tendencies must be overridden in service of the desired impression. Studies 1-4 showed that self-presentation under challenging conditions or according to counter-normative patterns (presenting oneself modestly to strangers, boastfully to friends, contrary to gender norms, to a skeptical audience, or while being a racial token) led to impaired self-regulation later, suggesting that those self-presentations depleted self-regulatory resources. When self-presentation conformed to familiar, normative, or dispositional patterns, self-regulation was less implicated. Studies 5-8 showed that when resources for self-regulation had been depleted by prior acts of self-control, self-presentation drifted toward less-effective patterns (talking too much, overly or insufficiently intimate disclosures, or egotistical arrogance). Thus, inner processes may serve interpersonal functions, although optimal interpersonal activity exacts a short-term cost. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
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