Routledge International Handbook of Self-Control in Health and Well-Being

The ability to prioritise long-term goals above short-term gratifications is crucial to living a healthy and happy life. We are bombarded with temptations, whether from fast-food or faster technologies, but the psychological capacity to manage our lives within such a challenging environment has far-reaching implications for the well-being not only of the individual, but also society as a whole. The Routledge International Handbook of Self-Control in Health and Wellbeing is the first comprehensive handbook to map this burgeoning area of research by applying it to health outcomes and personal well-being. Including contributions from leading scholars worldwide, the book incorporates new research findings that suggest that simply inhibiting our immediate impulses isn’t the whole story; there may be more options to improve self-control than simply by suppressing the ego. Divided into six coherent sections, the book provides an overview of the research base before discussing a range of interventions to help improve self-control in different contexts, from smoking or drinking too much to developing self-control over aggression or spending money. The only definitive handbook on this far-reaching topic, this essential work will appeal to researchers and students across health and social psychology, as well as related health sciences. 1. Introduction Part I. Conceptualizing Self-Control 2. Attentional and motivational mechanisms of self-control Marina Milyavskaya & Michael Inzlicht 3. Proactive and reactive self-control Asael Sklar, So Yon Rim, & Kentaro Fujita 4. Positioning self-control in a dual-systems framework Marleen Gillebaart & Denise de Ridder 5. The use of reward cue reactivity in predicting real-world self-control failure Dylan D. Wagner Part II. Assessing Self-Control 6. Ego-depletion, self-control tasks, and the sequential task paradigm in health behavior Martin S. Hagger & Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis 7. Measurement of self-control by self-report: Considerations and recommendations Rick H. Hoyle & Erin K. Davisson 8. The health consequences of intertemporal preferences Oleg Urminsky & Gal Zauberman 9. Assessing self-control: The use and usefulness of the experience-sampling method Simone Dohle & Wilhelm Hofmann 10. The neuroscience of self-control Elliot T. Berkman Part III. Antecedents and Consequences of Self-Control 11. What limits self-control? A motivated effort-allocation account Daniel C. Molden, Chin Ming Hui, & Abigail A. Scholer 12. Implicit t