In particular, the resource model of self-control predicts that through regular practice self-control can be strengthened, leaving individuals less susceptible to depletion. While the resource model of self-control was integral to developing new insight into the facets of behavioral change, one of its biggest contributions is a relatively unexplored avenue: self-control training. Muraven, in Self-Regulation and Ego Control, 2016 Hedonic Sampling and Self-control Training People who had earlier controlled themselves in one domain were less able to control themselves with respect to eating or impulsive spending.Д«.C. Subsequent behaviors in the realms of eating ice cream and unplanned purchasing patterns were assessed. This was intended to deplete regulatory resources for these participants, relative to participants who were not instructed to engage in self-control. In these studies, people were instructed to control some aspect of their behavior (e.g., attentional or emotion responses). Two examples of studies from the resource model are relevant to applied psychology because they involve dieting and impulsive spending. Roy Baumeister, Kathleen Vohs, and colleagues posited that the responses involved in emotion regulation, mental control, impulse intervention, and behavioral guidance all use this resource and, consequently, levels of the resource diminish with each act of self-control. This is known as a state of ego depletion, which reflects an inability to muster enough regulatory resources to meet a specific self-control demand. (Readers may notice that the resource model specifies the operate function in a TOTE model.) Any one act of self-control leaves the person less successful for a subsequent act (within a circumscribed time period) because fewer resources are available to put toward the second self-control action. The regulatory resource model (or ego depletion model) posits that the ability to control oneself is governed by a finite resource that is shared among all types of self-control faculties. Baumeister, in Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology, 2004 3.2 Regulatory Resource Model Social resources can enhance coping efforts by bolstering feelings of self-confidence, as well as by providing informational guidance that aids in assessing threat and in planning coping strategies. People with higher levels of self-efficacy, for instance, tend to approach challenging situations in an active and persistent style, whereas those with lower levels of self-efficacy are less active or tend to avoid such situations. Similarly, among women coping with breast cancer and students adjusting to law school, more adaptive coping efforts operate as a mediator through which optimism relates to better psychological adjustment.

Among community adults facing high stressors, adaptive personality characteristics and family support operate prospectively as coping resources in turn, coping mediates between initial resources and later health status. At one level, these models identify a key mechanism through which personal and social resources operate at another level, they demonstrate that adaptive coping requires a strong underlying psychosocial foundation. Resources models of coping examine how personal and social resources relate to better functioning under high stressors by fostering adaptive coping efforts. Groesz, in Encyclopedia of Stress (Second Edition), 2007 Coping Mediation

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