Self-control is the capacity to suppress thoughts, inhibit impulses,
overcome temptations or change habits. Baumeister,
Bratslavsky, Muraven, and Tice (1998) proposed the ‘strength’ or
‘limited resource’ model of self-control in which self-control is conceptualized
as a limited resource. A large number of laboratory studies
(N > 200) have supported this hypothesis by demonstrating that participants
whose self-control resources have been depleted by an initial
act of self-control performed worse on a second act of self-control
relative to participants whose self-control resources were not depleted
by an initial act of self-control