控制感剥夺对欺骗行为的影响:自我控制资源损耗的作用

The Effects of Control Deprivation on Deceptive Behaviors:The Role of Ego Depletion

为探究控制感剥夺与欺骗行为之间的关系及其内在作用机制,采用被试间设计,以76名大学生为被试,首先通过概念形成范式操纵个体的控制感水平,然后用自我损耗量表测量被试的自我控制资源损耗程度,最后采用数字矩阵任务考察被试的欺骗行为.研究发现,控制感剥夺组被试的欺骗行为及自我控制资源损耗程度均显著高于对照组,但自我控制资源损耗在控制感剥夺与欺骗行为之间的中介效应不显著.这表明,控制感剥夺会增加个体的欺骗行为,但自我控制资源损耗并不在其中起中介作用.

To explore the relationships between control deprivation and deceptive behaviors as well as the psychological mechanism, this study used between-subject design and selected 76 college students as the subjects. Firstly, the experiment manipulated the subjects’ sense of control by the concept formation paradigm, and then used the ego depletion scale to measure the ego depletion degree of the subjects, finally, used digital matrix task to investigate the deceptive behaviors of the subjects. The results showed that the deceptive behaviors and ego depletion occurred in the control-deprivation group were significantly more than that in the control group, but the mediating effect of ego depletion on the relationships between control deprivation and deceptive behavior was not significant. These results indicated that control deprivation increased deceptive behaviors, but ego depletion did not mediate it.