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Successful and Positive Learning Through Study Crafting: A Self-Control Perspective

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Using social media and other Internet-based sources could distract students from decent academic learning and lead to negative learning, and self-control is required to foster self-regulated learning. Self-control involves the trait-like capacity for self-control and the state-like level of self-control strength, which could be used for performing self-control tasks. Capacity for self-control can be increased by regularly practicing self-control similar to a muscle that needs training for strengthening. We encourage creating study environments in which self-control is reasonably demanded. In particular, we propose that students should be enabled to engage in study crafting behavior. Study crafting represents environmental self-control behavior, which involves designing one’s study environment to achieve some form of identity. This allows redirecting self-control strength into academic studies, fostering goal attainment such as finishing homework on time or graduating. We make recommendations for stimulating study crafting behavior. These involve increasing students’ autonomy setting complex study goals for increasing students’ motivation for crafting behavior.