Ignoring stimuli related to self involves not only attention inhibition but also self-control

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dc.abstract.enPrevious studies have shown that individuals high in the self-control trait are more skilled at avoiding distraction, including higher resistance to affective stimuli. In the current study, we aimed to examine whether self-control moderates working memory performance under the distraction of self-referential stimuli. We assumed that the level of familiarity of a photo of a person presented peripherally as irrelevant stimuli during a goal-directed task, will translate to the level of distractibility. Eighty-six volunteers (10 men) participated in the study. A spatial working memory span task was used as a goal-directed task, while photos of faces varying in their self-reference and attention-capturing propensity were used as distraction. The participants’ task was to focus on the spatial working memory span task while ignoring the distractors. The obtained results show that individuals who are average and high in proactive control (a component of self-control) exhibited higher resistance to the self-reference stimuli presented during the working memory task, thus they were more adept at avoiding distraction than those with low proactive control. Our findings suggest that only certain components of the self-control trait may be at least partially responsible for resistance to self-related distraction.
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii we Wrocławiu
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.contributor.authorOrzechowski, Jarosław
dc.contributor.authorGruszka, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.authorNowak, Michał
dc.contributor.authorWójcik, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorWujcik, Radosław
dc.contributor.authorNęcka, Edward
dc.date.access2024-03-01
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-08T06:31:01Z
dc.date.available2024-10-08T06:31:01Z
dc.date.created2023-07-11
dc.date.issued2024-03-01
dc.description.accesstimeat_publication
dc.description.issue1
dc.description.physical12-20
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume20
dc.identifier.doi10.5709/acp-0411-8
dc.identifier.issn1895-1171
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/906
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.ac-psych.org/en/issues/volume/20/issue/1#art418
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
dc.share.articleOPEN_JOURNAL
dc.subject.enself-control
dc.subject.enattention
dc.subject.encognitive control
dc.subject.engoal-directed behaviour
dc.swps.sciencecloudsend
dc.titleIgnoring stimuli related to self involves not only attention inhibition but also self-control
dc.title.journalAdvances in Cognitive Psychology
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle