Stojanovic Marco, Grund Axel, Fries Stefan
Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Luxembourg Centre for Educational Testing - LUCET, Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Front Psychol. 2022 Jun 10;13:883795. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.883795. eCollection 2022.
In this paper, we investigate the effects of context stability on automaticity and goal attainment in intentional habit building. We used hierarchical growth curve modeling and multilevel mediation to test our hypotheses on two datasets. In Study 1, = 95 university students ( = 2,482 habit repetitions) built new study habits over a period of 6 weeks with manipulated context stability. One group was instructed to constantly vary the context of their habit repetitions by changing rooms and times and the other group was instructed to keep the context of habit performance stable. In Study 2, = 308 habits ( = 2,368 habit repetitions) from = 218 users of a published habit building app were analyzed without manipulating but measuring context stability. We found the same pattern in both datasets: Context stability predicted more automaticity and higher habit repetition goal attainment. We also found that the effect of context stability on habit repetition goal attainment was partially mediated by automaticity in both datasets. These results show that context does not only act as a trigger for habit instigation but also has an ongoing effect on habit execution.
在本文中，我们研究了情境稳定性对有意养成习惯过程中的自动性和目标达成的影响。我们使用分层增长曲线模型和多层次中介分析来检验我们对两个数据集的假设。在研究1中，95名大学生（共2482次习惯重复）在6周的时间里通过操控情境稳定性来养成新的学习习惯。一组被指示通过改变房间和时间来不断改变习惯重复的情境，另一组则被指示保持习惯执行的情境稳定。在研究2中，我们分析了来自一款已发布的习惯养成应用程序的218名用户的308个习惯（共2368次习惯重复），未进行操控，而是测量情境稳定性。我们在两个数据集中都发现了相同的模式：情境稳定性预示着更高的自动性和更高的习惯重复目标达成。我们还发现，在两个数据集中，情境稳定性对习惯重复目标达成的影响部分是由自动性介导的。这些结果表明，情境不仅作为习惯激发的触发因素，而且对习惯执行有持续的影响。
