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  • Self-control often involves denying hedonic pleasures, potentially causing negative affect.
  • Negative affect may trigger emotion regulation, which can interfere with self-control maintenance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the incompatibility between inhibitory self-control and prohedonic emotion regulation.
  • To examine the daily life interplay between emotion regulation and self-control.

Main Methods:

  • Secondary analysis of a 6-week ambulatory assessment dataset.
  • 125 participants completed 22,845 measurement occasions via 6 daily signals.

Main Results:

  • Efforts to resist pleasurable desires significantly increased subsequent negative affect.
  • Increased negative affect led to greater emotion regulation efforts and higher self-control failure rates.

Conclusions:

  • Inhibitory self-control and prohedonic emotion regulation appear to be incompatible concerns.
  • Emotion regulation may conflict with the achievement of other personal goals.