Stapleton Alison, McCloskey Conor, McHugh Louise
School of Psychology, University College Dublin, D04 V1W8 Dublin, Ireland.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2025 Jun 10;15(6):795. doi: 10.3390/bs15060795.
Being able to change what we are doing when a behavior no longer serves us is important for our health and wellbeing. In the context of rule-governed behavior, changing one's behavior in line with shifting contingencies is often described as being "flexible", with many basic laboratory experiments operationalizing flexibility as deviations from a given rule that no longer results in reinforcement. And yet flexibility is not just about flouting rules; sometimes, being flexible means persisting. This paper unpacks flexibility in the context of rule-governed behavior from a relational frame theory perspective, outlining applied examples relevant to health behaviors.
当一种行为不再对我们有益时，能够改变我们正在做的事情对我们的健康和幸福很重要。在规则支配行为的背景下，根据不断变化的偶然情况改变自己的行为通常被描述为“灵活”，许多基础实验室实验将灵活性操作化为偏离不再产生强化作用的既定规则。然而，灵活性不仅仅是无视规则；有时，保持灵活性意味着坚持。本文从关系框架理论的角度剖析了规则支配行为背景下的灵活性，并概述了与健康行为相关的应用实例。
