Understanding How Identity and Value Motivate Self-Regulation Is Necessary but not Sufficient: A Motivated Effort-Allocation Perspective

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¹ Some researchers distinguish between processes of self-regulation and self-control and argue the latter is a special case of the former that specifically involves managing the conflict between pursuing two or more desired, but incompatible, objectives (e.g., Duckworth & Gross, 2014; Fujita, 2011). Although Berkman, Livingston, and Kahn (this issue) make a similar distinction in their identity-value model, the central mechanisms they describe in this model, and that we describe later in our own conceptualization of such processes, apply equally well to more general instances of self-regulation. Therefore, we focus on this broader, more general process throughout.