Effects of a digital self-control intervention to increase physical activity in middle-aged adults

Stieger, Mirjam; Allemand, Mathias; Lachman, Margie E.

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“…Second, the smartphone application MindHike is a 7-week chatbot-based intervention that supports and guides people who would like to improve their self-control with education, self-reflection, and behavioral tasks (Allemand et al, 2020). The MindHike application was used in a two-arm randomized controlled trial (RCT) (N = 86) to test the effects of the digital self-control coaching intervention to target self-control and physical activity (Stieger et al, 2023). The results of the study suggest significant overall increases in self-reported physical activity and objectively measured daily steps as well as increases in self-control.…”

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“…Meta-analyses on dropout rates in app-based health interventions (Meyerowitz-Katz et al, 2020) and smartphone-delivered interventions for mental health problems (Linardon & Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, 2000) show that attrition is generally high in digital interventions and significantly higher in trials that do not use an in-person enrollment method. Based on prior findings (e.g., Stieger et al, 2023), future research may use tailored recruitment and follow-up strategies depending on individual conscientiousness levels. In addition, in the future, it would be interesting to examine differences in the attrition rate and maintenance effects between participants who receive a chatbot-based intervention, which aims to imitate a conversation with a real coach, and participants who receive a less interactive and less intensive digital intervention (e.g., e-mailor web-based interventions) as these differences remain unclear to this date.…”

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One year later: Longer‐term maintenance effects of a digital intervention to change personality traits

Stieger,

Flückiger,

Allemand

2023

Journal of Personality

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ObjectiveRecent research suggests that personality traits can be changed by psychological interventions. However, it is unclear whether these intended personality changes can be maintained or merely reflect ephemeral shifts.MethodThe present study reports 1‐year follow‐up effects of a 3‐month digital intervention for personality trait change. Personality traits were measured before the intervention (pretest: N = 1523), directly after the intervention (posttest: n = 554), and 3 months (follow‐up 1: n = 437) and 1 year (follow‐up 2: n = 157) after the end of the intervention.ResultsAttrition analyses suggest that participants who completed the 1‐year follow‐up were significantly more open to experience (d = 0.19), less neurotic (d = 0.20), more agreeable (d = 0.35) and more conscientious (d = 0.27) than participants who did not complete the 1‐year follow‐up. Also, until the 1‐year follow‐up, personality trait changes achieved remained stable (for those who wanted to increase in extraversion and conscientiousness) or even changed further in the desired direction (for those who wanted to decrease in neuroticism).ConclusionThese results suggest that changes in personality traits due to a targeted intervention are not just ephemeral shifts and can even continue.

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One year later: Longer‐term maintenance effects of a digital intervention to change personality traits

Stieger,

Flückiger,

Allemand

2023

Journal of Personality

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The process and mechanisms of personality change

Jackson,

Wright

2024

Nat Rev Psychol

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Confirming the Causal Role of Consistent Contexts in Developing a Walking Habit: A Randomized Comparison With Varied Contexts

Ebert,

Lin

2024

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

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Background Physical activity interventions using habit development may help people increase and then maintain physical activity increases over time. Enacting behavior in consistent contexts is a central component of habit development, yet its causal role in habit development in health behaviors has not been confirmed. Purpose This study tests the causal role of consistent context in habit development in health behavior, using a randomized control trial of a planning intervention to develop a walking habit in 127 insufficiently active, working, midlife adults in a real-world setting. Methods We compare participants who plan walking in consistent contexts with controls who plan walking in varied contexts and with controls not required to plan on a change in average daily steps (measured using an accelerometer) and inhabit automaticity during a 4-week intervention and at a 4-week follow-up. Results As expected, consistent and varied context planners increased walking during the intervention, but only consistent context planners developed (and maintained) habit automaticity. Counter to expectations, consistent context planners did not show walking maintenance. However, across conditions, participants who developed more habit automaticity during the intervention also maintained walking more (decreased less). Having a routine daily schedule moderated some effects. Notably, no-plan controls with greater routine developed more habit automaticity, mediated by walking in more consistent contexts. Conclusions This study confirms the causal role of consistent contexts in developing a walking habit, in a real-world setting, with an important but challenging population for physical activity interventions and identifies a facilitating condition common for many: a routine schedule.

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Effects of a digital self-control intervention to increase physical activity in middle-aged adults

Cited by 5 publications

References 37 publications

One year later: Longer‐term maintenance effects of a digital intervention to change personality traits

One year later: Longer‐term maintenance effects of a digital intervention to change personality traits

The process and mechanisms of personality change

Confirming the Causal Role of Consistent Contexts in Developing a Walking Habit: A Randomized Comparison With Varied Contexts

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