Hunte, R., Cooper, S.B. ORCID: 0000-0001-5219-5020, Taylor, I.M., Nevill, M.E. and Boat, R. ORCID: 0000-0002-4897-8118, 2022. Boredom, motivation, and perceptions of pain: mechanisms to explain the effects of self-control exertion on subsequent physical performance. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 63: 102265. ISSN 1469-0292
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Objectives: Prior self-control exertion has been shown to have a detrimental effect on subsequent physical performance. However, some potential underpinning mechanisms of the effect have yet to be examined. The present study explored whether exerting self-control reduces subsequent physical performance; and also examines the role of boredom, motivation, perceptions of pain, and sustained attention as mechanisms to explain these performance effects.
Methods: In a within-subjects order-balanced crossover design, 63 participants completed a self-control exertion task (incongruent Stroop) and non-self-control exertion task (congruent Stroop) for 4 min. Immediately after, participants completed a wall-sit task until volitional exhaustion. Task-specific boredom was measured following the Stroop task and following the wall-sit task. Participants’ perceptions of pain and motivation were measured every 30 s during the wall sit task. Upon completion of the wall-sit, participants completed a test of sustained attention.
Results: Following the self-control exertion task, participant’s wall-sit performance time was reduced (136 ± 62 s), compared to when they completed the non-self-control exertion task (144 ± 57 s, p = 0.05, d = 0.14). Participant’s task related boredom was significantly higher during the non-self-control exertion task (4.30 ± 1.23), compared to the self-control exertion task (3.82 ± 1.22) (p < 0.001, d = 0.39); but boredom was not different during the wall-sit task (p = 0.79). Prior self-control exertion also led to increased overall perceptions of pain (p = 0.02) and reduced overall (p = 0.01) and initial (p = 0.02) motivation during the wall-sit task. However, no differences in initial perceptions of pain (p = 0.16) or sustained attention (response time, p = 0.99; response accuracy, p = 0.78) were observed. Additional within-subjects mediation analysis revealed that differences in wall-sit performance time could not be explained by differences in task related boredom during the Stroop task, overall perceptions of pain, or overall and initial motivation (all p > 0.05).
Conclusions: The prior exertion of self-control resulted in a decrement in subsequent physical performance. Furthermore, individuals’ perceptions of task related boredom were higher during the non-self-control exertion (congruent Stroop) task, whilst overall perceptions of pain were higher, and initial and overall motivation were lower, following the self-control exertion (incongruent Stroop) task. However, mediation analysis revealed that these mechanisms did not explain the difference in wall sit performance time between the conditions.
Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||||
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Publication Title: | Psychology of Sport and Exercise | ||||||||
Creators: | Hunte, R., Cooper, S.B., Taylor, I.M., Nevill, M.E. and Boat, R. | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
Date: | November 2022 | ||||||||
Volume: | 63 | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1469-0292 | ||||||||
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Rights: | This is an open access article under the CC BY license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | ||||||||
Divisions: | Schools > School of Science and Technology | ||||||||
Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||||||
Date Added: | 16 Aug 2022 08:46 | ||||||||
Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2022 08:46 | ||||||||
URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/46884 |
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