The Effect of Public Social Context on Self-Control: Depletion for Neuroticism and Restoration for Impression Management

Liad Uziel; Roy F. Baumeister

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The Effect of Public Social Context on Self-Control: Depletion for Neuroticism and Restoration for Impression Management

Liad Uziel, Roy F. Baumeister

Department of Psychology

Florida State University

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Abstract

The present study explores the role of personality in moderating the effect of public social context on self-control. The authors predicted that in public settings neuroticism would be associated with ego-depletion effects and individual differences in impression management (IM) would be associated with restoration effects. Three experiments supported the hypothesis. In Study 1 neuroticism was associated with impaired self-control and IM was associated with enhanced self-control following an initial phase of working on a simple task in public (vs. in private). Study 2 replicated and extended these results to other domains of self-control. Study 3 explored whether public social context can cancel out early depletion effects. In this study, depleted participants engaged in a task that required self-control either alone or in public. As expected, the public settings were associated with restored self-control resources mostly among high IM individuals. Implications for self-control, neuroticism, and IM are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	384-396
Number of pages	13
Journal	Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Volume	38
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167211427310
State	Published - Mar 2012

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was partially supported by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation (Grant No. 70/11) to Liad Uziel. Roy F. Baumeister’s effort was supported by Grant 1RL1AA017541 from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was partially supported by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation (Grant No. 70/11) to Liad Uziel. Roy F. Baumeister’s effort was supported by Grant 1RL1AA017541 from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Funders	Funder number
National Institutes of Health
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism	RL1AA017541
Israel Science Foundation	70/11, 1RL1AA017541

Keywords

impression management
neuroticism
self-control
social desirability
social facilitation
social presence

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