Self-Control beyond inhibition. German Translation and Quality Assessment of the Self-Control Strategy Scale (SCSS)use asterix (*) to get italics

Leopold H. O. Roth1, Julia Jankowski1, Georgia Clay1, Dominik Meindl1, Lisa-Marie Vogt1, Victoria Wagner1, Artemis Nordmann1, Loana Stenzel1, Olga Freiman1, Christopher Mlynski1, Veronika Job1; 1University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaPlease use the format "First name initials family name" as in "Marie S. Curie, Niels H. D. Bohr, Albert Einstein, John R. R. Tolkien, Donna T. Strickland"

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<p>Self-control is crucial for goal attainment and related to several beneficial outcomes, such as health and education. For a long time, it was predominantly understood in terms of inhibition, namely the ability to suppress immediate urges for the sake of long-term goals. Still, research on other self-control strategies has a longstanding tradition and recent research has moved towards a broader approach, integrating different strategies of self-control (e.g., reappraisal or pre-commitment) to gain a more comprehensive perspective on relevant processes in goal protection. The current study aims to translate and validate the Self-Control Strategy Scale (SCSS, Katzir et al., 2021) to enable its application in German speaking populations while assuring high measurement quality. The internal structure, reliability and convergent and discriminant validity will be assessed. Additionally, the strategies’ relationship with several self-control outcomes (e.g., achievement, health behavior, or pro-environmental behavior) will be tested.</p>

Registered Report, Self-Control, Strategies, Translation, Validation, Reliability

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Malte Friese [malte.friese@uni-saarland.de] suggested: Sorry for declining. I am currently collaborating with several of the authors and therefore have a conflict of interest. , Malte Friese [malte.friese@uni-saarland.de] suggested: You can try lasse.wennerhold@uni-saarland.de or kaitlyn.werner@utoronto.ca / werner.kaitlyn@gmail.com. Kaitlyn Werner is a co-author of the original scale. , Marie Hennecke [marie.hennecke@uni-siegen.de] suggested: I am not available during the requested time window. , Marie Hennecke [marie.hennecke@uni-siegen.de] suggested: Maybe you could ask Dr. Sebastian Bürgler, University of Zurich., Eleanor Miles suggested: As discussed by email with Zoltan, I do not have expertise in scale development so will be less able to review that aspect of the work. One person who comes to mind with more expertise in that area is Kaitlyn Werner at UPenn (kwerner@upenn.edu), who studies self-control and has published on scale development and psychometrics, including developing the original Self-Control Strategies scale which will be translated in this RR. Jessica Kay Flake would be a great person to advise on measurement and scale development (jessica.flake@mcgill.ca). I don't know either of these people personally, so not sure how likely they are to say yes, but I think they'd be good!, Catrin Finkenauer [c.finkenauer@uu.nl] suggested: sorry that I can't help, I'm on vacation till the end of the month. Hope you'll keep me in mind for future reviews, best Catrin, Sebastian Bürgler suggested: Blair Saunders, b.z.saunders@dundee.ac.uk No need for them to be recommenders of PCI Registered Reports. Please do not suggest reviewers for whom there might be a conflict of interest. Reviewers are not allowed to review preprints written by close colleagues (with whom they have published in the last four years, with whom they have received joint funding in the last four years, or with whom they are currently writing a manuscript, or submitting a grant proposal), or by family members, friends, or anyone for whom bias might affect the nature of the review - see the code of conduct

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