What helps to form a healthy nutrition habit? Daily associations of intrinsic reward, anticipated regret, and self-efficacy with automaticity.

Anticipated regret Automaticity Habit formation Intrinsic reward Nutrition Self-efficacy

Journal

Appetite
ISSN: 1095-8304
Titre abrégé: Appetite
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8006808

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 Aug 2022
Historique:
received: 15 11 2021
revised: 19 04 2022
accepted: 11 05 2022
pubmed: 18 5 2022
medline: 18 5 2022
entrez: 17 5 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

High automaticity in healthy nutrition behaviors is related to long-term maintenance of these behaviors. Drawing upon theoretical frameworks of habit formation, proposed antecedents such as intrinsic reward, anticipated regret, and self-efficacy are important correlates of automaticity, but not much is known about their day-by-day relationships with automaticity in healthy nutrition behaviors. This study tested previous-day within-person (i.e., from one day to the next) and same-day within-person associations of intrinsic reward, anticipated regret, and self-efficacy with automaticity of a healthy nutrition behavior, for which participants attempted to form a new habit. Secondary analyses of a randomized controlled trial with two planning intervention conditions including a longitudinal sample of n = 135 participants (age: M = 24.82 years; SD = 7.27) are reported. Participants formed a plan on a self-selected healthy nutrition behavior to become a new habit and were followed up over 12 weeks assessing daily levels of plan-specific intrinsic reward, anticipated regret, self-efficacy, and automaticity. Lagged multilevel models with 84 study days nested in participants estimated previous-day within-person, same-day within-person, and between-person relationships of intrinsic reward, anticipated regret, and self-efficacy with automaticity. Regarding within-level relationships, higher-than-usual levels of intrinsic reward, anticipated regret, and self-efficacy of the same day but not of the previous day were associated with higher within-person automaticity. With respect to between-level relationships, higher between-levels (i.e., higher person mean levels across the study period) of intrinsic reward, anticipated regret, and self-efficacy were linked with higher automaticity. Findings point towards the potential to intervene on intrinsic reward, anticipated regret, and self-efficacy when aiming to promote a new healthy nutrition habit.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
High automaticity in healthy nutrition behaviors is related to long-term maintenance of these behaviors. Drawing upon theoretical frameworks of habit formation, proposed antecedents such as intrinsic reward, anticipated regret, and self-efficacy are important correlates of automaticity, but not much is known about their day-by-day relationships with automaticity in healthy nutrition behaviors. This study tested previous-day within-person (i.e., from one day to the next) and same-day within-person associations of intrinsic reward, anticipated regret, and self-efficacy with automaticity of a healthy nutrition behavior, for which participants attempted to form a new habit.
METHODS METHODS
Secondary analyses of a randomized controlled trial with two planning intervention conditions including a longitudinal sample of n = 135 participants (age: M = 24.82 years; SD = 7.27) are reported. Participants formed a plan on a self-selected healthy nutrition behavior to become a new habit and were followed up over 12 weeks assessing daily levels of plan-specific intrinsic reward, anticipated regret, self-efficacy, and automaticity. Lagged multilevel models with 84 study days nested in participants estimated previous-day within-person, same-day within-person, and between-person relationships of intrinsic reward, anticipated regret, and self-efficacy with automaticity.
FINDINGS RESULTS
Regarding within-level relationships, higher-than-usual levels of intrinsic reward, anticipated regret, and self-efficacy of the same day but not of the previous day were associated with higher within-person automaticity. With respect to between-level relationships, higher between-levels (i.e., higher person mean levels across the study period) of intrinsic reward, anticipated regret, and self-efficacy were linked with higher automaticity.
DISCUSSION CONCLUSIONS
Findings point towards the potential to intervene on intrinsic reward, anticipated regret, and self-efficacy when aiming to promote a new healthy nutrition habit.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2022.106083 PMID: 35580819
pubmed: 35580819
pii: S0195-6663(22)00174-X
doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2022.106083
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doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

106083

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Auteurs

Sally Di Maio (S)

Department of Education and Psychology, Division Health Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, D-14195, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: sally.dimaio@fu-berlin.de.

Jan Keller (J)

Department of Education and Psychology, Division Health Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, D-14195, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: jan.keller@fu.berlin.de.

Dominika Kwasnicka (D)

Faculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Aleksandra Ostrowskiego 30B, 53-238, Wroclaw, Poland; NHMRC Centre in Digital Technology to Transform Chronic Disease Outcomes, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, 5/ Exhibition Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia. Electronic address: dom.kwasnicka@unimelb.edu.au.

Nina Knoll (N)

Department of Education and Psychology, Division Health Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, D-14195, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: nina.knoll@fu-berlin.de.

Lena Sichert (L)

Department of Education and Psychology, Division Health Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, D-14195, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: l.sichert@outlook.de.

Lena Fleig (L)

Department of Psychology, MSB Medical School Berlin, Hochschule für Gesundheit und Medizin, Rüdesheimer Straße 50, 14197, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: lena.fleig@medicalschool-berlin.de.

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