Consumer self-regulation: Looking back to look forward. A systematic literature review
这篇系统性文献综述梳理了消费者自我调节领域的研究，发现特质自我控制、自我调节耗竭和长期调节焦点是主要前因，研究多聚焦于食品和财务决策，并为实践者和政策制定者提供了帮助消费者改善自我调节的指南。
In recent decades, there has been a significant increase in consumer self-regulation research. This field is important for the welfare of consumers and society because of self-regulation’s role in in preventing problems including public health issues, such as obesity, deterioration of the natural environment, and revolving credit card debt. This systematic literature review uses a framework-based approach to present an organized and synthesized understanding of this field. The three factors that most frequently appear as the antecedents of consumer self-regulation are trait self-control, self-regulatory depletion, and chronic regulatory focus. Self-regulation has been the most studied regarding food and financial decision-making. The theory of self-regulatory strength model or self-control depletion model have been the main frameworks for most studies. This study proposes a research agenda based on identified opportunities and gaps, and offers guidelines for practitioners and policy makers to enable them to help consumers in improving self-regulation.