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Self-regulation is a key component to success in multiple contexts. Nevertheless, people often fail to exert self-control. The present entry discusses one theoretical account self-regulation failures: the ego-depletion model of self-control. The entry summarizes the area of ego depletion by first examining two models of ego depletion – the resource model and the process model – and then discussing the role of individual differences in the ego-depletion process.
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Sosa, N.E., Howell, J.L. (2017). Ego Depletion. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1793-1
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