Self-Control as Limited Resource: Regulatory Depletion Patterns

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 774-789

  Muraven, Mark ^b   Tice, Dianne M ^b   Baumeister, Roy F ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROL; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENT; THINKING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MENTAL FATIGUE; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS; THINKING;

EID: 0032011124     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.74.3.774     Document Type: Article

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