Most work on self‐control and impulsivity typically assumes, more or less tacitly, that people value self‐control as more important than succumbing to temptations. According to this narrative, people regard impulsive behaviours as ‘failures’ of self‐control and experience negative self‐evaluations such as feelings of guilt or shame in response. Here, we direct attention to a neglected but crucial meta‐behavioural valuation dimension of impulsive behaviour. We posit that individual differences in people's valuation of temptation enactment (VOTE) qualify whether and to what extent impulsive behaviours trigger negative self‐evaluations and whether and to what extent people feel motivated to self‐improve. Using a newly constructed VOTE scale, we first show that individual differences in VOTE can be reliably measured and clearly distinguished from traditional impulsivity or self‐control scales (Studies 1–3; total N = 576). Across three subsequent studies (total N = 460), we then demonstrate that high VOTE, as compared with low VOTE, reduces the link between impulsive behaviours and negative self‐conscious emotions (Studies 4 and 5), as well as between past impulsive behaviour and self‐improvement motivation (Study 6). These findings have implications for the discourse on self‐control failure and for the link between impulsive behaviour and self‐evaluation, self‐improvement motivation, and well‐being. © 2020 European Association of Personality Psychology

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当冲动行为不等于自我控制失败时：诱惑制定的（附加）值

大多数关于自我控制和冲动的工作通常或多或少地默认为，人们认为自我控制比屈从于诱惑更重要。根据这种说法，人们将冲动行为视为自我控制的“失败”，并经历了负面的自我评价，例如感到内或羞愧。在这里，我们将注意力集中在冲动行为的一个被忽略但至关重要的元行为评估维度上。我们认为，人们对诱惑法规（VOTE）评估的个体差异决定了冲动行为是否会在何种程度上触发负面的自我评价，以及人们是否以及在何种程度上受到了自我改善的动力。使用新构建的VOTE秤，N  = 576）。在随后的三项研究（总N  = 460）中，我们证明了与低VOTE相比，高VOTE减少了冲动行为和消极的自我意识情绪之间的联系（研究4和5）以及过去的冲动行为之间的联系。和自我改善的动机（研究6）。这些发现对讨论自我控制失败，冲动行为与自我评价，自我改进动机以及幸福感之间的联系具有重要意义。©2020欧洲人格心理学协会