{
  "creator": [
    "Wolff, Wanja",
    "Bieleke, Maik",
    "Englert, Chris",
    "Bertrams, Alex",
    "Schüler, Julia",
    "Martarelli, Corinna S."
  ],
  "date": [
    "2022-05-10"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Self-control is a highly adaptive human capacity and research on self-control is booming. To further facilitate self-control research, especially in conditions where time-constraints might render the use of multi-item measures of self-control problematic, a validated time-efficient single item measure would be an asset. However, such a measure has not yet been developed and tested. Here, we address this gap by reporting the psychometric properties of a single item measure of self-control and by assessing its localization within a larger theorized psychometric network consisting of self-control, boredom and if-then planning. In a high-powered (N = 1553) study with paid online workers from the US (gender: 47.3% female, 51.7% male, 1% other; age: 40.36 ± 12.65 years), we found evidence for the convergent validity (Brief Self-Control Scale), divergent validity (Short Boredom Proneness Scale and If-Then Planning Scale), and criterion validity (objective and subjective socio-economic status) of the single item measure of self-control (“How much self-control do you have?”). Network psychometrics further revealed that the single item was part of the self-control subnetwork and clearly distinguishable from boredom and if-then planning, which together with self-control form a larger psychometric network of psychological dispositions that are relevant for orienting goal directed behavior. Thus, the present findings indicate that self-control can be adequately captured with the single item measure presented here, thereby extending the methodological toolbox of self-control researchers by a highly-time efficient measure."
  ],
  "format": [
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    "text/html",
    "text/xml"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/7453",
    "10.32872/spb.7453"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/7453/7453.pdf",
    "https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/7453/7453.html",
    "https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/7453/7453.xml"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "Copyright (c) 2022 Wanja Wolff, Maik Bieleke, Chris Englert, Alex Bertrams, Julia Schüler, Corinna Martarelli",
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Social Psychological Bulletin; Vol. 17 (2022); 1-22",
    "2569-653X",
    "10.32872/spb.v17"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "self-control",
    "boredom",
    "if-then planning",
    "psychometric networks",
    "validation"
  ],
  "title": [
    "A Single Item Measure of Self-Control – Validation and Location in a Nomological Network of Self-Control, Boredom, and If-Then Planning"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}