Abstract
The present study examined the effects of person and situational variables on the redressive self-control process. The Redressive-Reformative Self-Control Scale (Sugiwaka, 1995) was used to screen 299 undergraduates (102 men, 197 women; average age 19.7), who were then divided into 2 groups on the basis of the number of behavioral repertoires of redressive self-control: many (n=30) or few (n=37). The execution of rdressive self-control was assessed under easy or difficult speech conditions. Controlling responses used as redressive self-control were distinguished by task-orientation. Person variables interacted with situational variables on the task-oriented redressive self-control task, whereas situational variables were more influential than person variables on the non-task-oriented redressive self-control. These results suggest that the 2 types of redressive self-control have a different function, and that they are used differentially, depending on the person and the situation.
