SELF CONTROL, Sebin Kumbalath

SELF CONTROL

Traditionally, a capacity to conduct one as omen judges best when tempted to do otherwise. Self control is the contrary of weakness of will or akrasia. Aristotle distinguishes self control (enkrateia) from temperance (sophrosune). The latter a moral virtue, is possessed only by individuals who have no improper or excessive desires regarding bodily pleasures and pains; self controlled individuals have such desires but they characteristically resist them, acting as they judge best. On more recent views, self control may be exhibited in any sphere in which motivational states compete  with a person's values, principles, or practical judgments, including practical and theoretical reasoning and the gathering and the assessment of evidence for motivationally attractive or unattractive hypotheses (e.g. the hypothesis of that one is popular or that one's spouse has been unfaithful).Self control or self-control is the ability to control one's emotions behavior and desires in order to obtain some reward later, and is the capacity of efficient management to the future. In psychology it is sometimes called self regulation. Exerting self-control through the executive functions in decision making is held in some theories to deplete a psychic resource.

Another view is that self-control represents the locus of two conflicting contingencies of reinforcement, which then make a controlling response reinforcing when it causes changes in the controlled response.

Self-control is directly related to the pressure an individual may face.

·    Good Pressure: When an individual is in a competitive, yet non-judgmental and non-prejudicial environment, the individual may want to be like those around them. An individual may become motivated and inspired and gain self-control.

·    Bad Pressure: When an individual is in a judgmental and prejudicial environment and there is no competition, an individual may become depressed and unmotivated, losing self-control.

·    No Pressure: When an individual is free and there is no competition, and can do what one may feel, self-control is based on how an individual may feel. Since there are no other individuals to compare, an individual may be less motivated or more motivated depending on the urgency of whatever they are doing.