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EV0292

The Willpower Checklist: Theory Development

WILLPOWER CHECKLIST: THEORY FORMATION

Dijkhuis's theory of willpower has been converted into a three-step, one-page checklist to make it empirically testable.

The aim of the study is to make Dijkhuis's theory of willpower empirically testable by converting it into a checklist and to discuss its potential use in deciding when to take a break in therapies such as MANTRA. The method involves producing a one-page checklist containing all the necessary information about the theory; the poster lists four DOI sources for the theory. The checklist consists of three steps: executive checks (fuel: nutrition and bonding, hardware, rest: sleep and calibration), legislative checks (being passionate, taking action), and judiciary checks (being certain, respect, responsibility, validity, first person: personalization and realization). Each item is assessed using pass, fail, and defects columns; progression to the next step occurs only after the previous step has been passed, and checks restart from the first step if the patient's condition deteriorates. The outcome is described as neutral and therefore safe for use with patients from different cultural backgrounds and/or those with complex presentations, although the psychiatrist needs to provide individualized examples relevant to treatment (e.g., a familiar place to visit to address a calibration defect). The poster also concludes that a cut-off score is probably needed to determine whether the checklist is worth completing, similar to the use of a cut-off score of ≥8 on a 1–10 scale in Matter's Decision Disagreement Framework.

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