The Significance of Self-control
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Previous studies showed that highly self-controlled individuals were more effective than impulsive individuals in regulating their problematic behaviors and reducing the occurrence of problematic mobile phone use.
“Previous studies showed that highly self-controlled individuals were more effective than impulsive individuals in regulating their problematic behaviors (Gao, Liu, Gao, & Li, 2020) and reducing the occurrence of PMPU (Duckworth, 2011).”
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- Authors
- Duckworth, A. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Duckworth, Angela L.
- ORCID
- Duckworth, Angela L.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2011-02-07
- Volume
- 108
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 2639-2640
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC3041117
- OpenAlex
- W2094847844
- Cited by
- 272
- References
- 19
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- FWCI
- 15.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
- Keywords
- self-control, self-regulation
- MeSH terms
- Psychology, Child, Humans, Internal-External Control, New Zealand, Personality, Social Behavior, Social Control, Informal
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