Raiff Bethany R, Upton Caitlyn R, Koffarnus Mikhail N
Department of Psychology, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USA.
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
J Appl Behav Anal. 2025 Jan;58(1):91-99. doi: 10.1002/jaba.2923. Epub 2024 Nov 18.
Contingency management is a well-validated behavior change intervention; however, the financial incentives can prevent it from being widely adopted. Most Americans have a smartphone with applications (apps) that they find enjoyable and engage with for a considerable amount of time. A potential avenue for contingency management dissemination is a mobile smartphone application that leverages the existing reward value of smartphone apps as a tool for behavior change. The present study examined the acceptability of the Re-Connect concept, which proposes to block nonessential but highly preferred apps and unlock them contingent on meeting the user's health goals. Out of the sample surveyed (N = 146), 63.02% reported that they would be likely to use Re-Connect and 67.81% would recommend it to someone. Acceptability of Re-Connect increased with greater user control. These results suggest that access to preferred smartphone apps could be a socially acceptable incentive in a contingency management intervention.
应急管理是一种经过充分验证的行为改变干预措施；然而，经济激励措施可能会阻碍其广泛应用。大多数美国人都有智能手机，他们会使用一些觉得有趣且会花费大量时间使用的应用程序（app）。应急管理传播的一个潜在途径是一款移动智能手机应用程序，它利用智能手机应用现有的奖励价值作为行为改变的工具。本研究考察了“重新连接”概念的可接受性，该概念提议阻止非必要但备受青睐的应用程序，并在用户达到健康目标时解锁这些应用程序。在接受调查的样本（N = 146）中，63.02%的人表示他们可能会使用“重新连接”，67.81%的人会向他人推荐它。随着用户控制程度的提高，“重新连接”的可接受性也会增加。这些结果表明，在应急管理干预中，访问心仪的智能手机应用程序可能是一种社会可接受的激励措施。
