Operationalizing Behavior Change Theory as Part of Persuasive Technology: A Scoping Review on Social Comparison

Lemke, Mailin; Vries, R. de

doi:10.3389/fcomp.2021.656873

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“…Recent studies have identified a lack of justification and guidance for the operationalization of BCTs ( Fulton et al, 2018 ; Lemke and de Vries, 2021 ). The evidence indicates that the way BCTs such as social support are incorporated into interventions could affect how they are associated with engagement.…”

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Potential associations between behavior change techniques and engagement with mobile health apps: a systematic review

Milne-Ives,

Homer,

Andrade

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionLack of engagement is a common challenge for digital health interventions. To achieve their potential, it is necessary to understand how best to support users’ engagement with interventions and target health behaviors. The aim of this systematic review was to identify the behavioral theories and behavior change techniques being incorporated into mobile health apps and how they are associated with the different components of engagement.MethodsThe review was structured using the PRISMA and PICOS frameworks and searched six databases in July 2022: PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, APA PsycArticles, ScienceDirect, and Web of Science. Risk of bias was evaluated using the Cochrane Collaboration Risk of Bias 2 and the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tools.AnalysisA descriptive analysis provided an overview of study and app characteristics and evidence for potential associations between Behavior Change Techniques (BCTs) and engagement was examined.ResultsThe final analysis included 28 studies. Six BCTs were repeatedly associated with user engagement: goal setting, self-monitoring of behavior, feedback on behavior, prompts/cues, rewards, and social support. There was insufficient data reported to examine associations with specific components of engagement, but the analysis indicated that the different components were being captured by various measures.ConclusionThis review provides further evidence supporting the use of common BCTs in mobile health apps. To enable developers to leverage BCTs and other app features to optimize engagement in specific contexts and individual characteristics, we need a better understanding of how BCTs are associated with different components of engagement.Systematic review registrationhttps://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/, identifier CRD42022312596.

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Potential associations between behavior change techniques and engagement with mobile health apps: a systematic review

Milne-Ives,

Homer,

Andrade

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…In return, employees may increase their efforts and extend their working time; this simultaneously reduces mental fatigue at the workplace. Lemke and Vries (2021) pointed out that social comparison theory can tap into the potential positive or negative effects on individual behavior to explain the reasons for behavior change. This theory provides ideas and a basis for this study to deeply explore the hypothesis related to the causes of employees’ mental fatigue.…”

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Impacts of Corporate Social Responsibility on Employees’ Mental Fatigue: Employees’ Ethical Perspective

Zheng

Addis

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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With the rise of cost of living and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic therewithal, finding reliable measures to reduce employees’ mental fatigue has become a great challenge. In this context, scholars have mainly focused on solutions for relieving employees’ mental fatigue from the perspective of human resource management but barely from employees’ ethical perspectives and that of internal and external corporate social responsibility (CSR) and employees’ ethics. This study uses hierarchical regression analysis and attempts to formulate and analyze the relationship between CSR, perceptions of corporate hypocrisy, and employees’ mental fatigue along with the mediating role of ethical egoism and altruistic choice. It also conceptualizes models and develops various hypotheses and theoretical logic. A total of 250 questionnaires were distributed, and 176 valid responses were subsequently gathered. The results show that employees’ mental fatigue significantly reduces when either internal or external CSR has a positive impact on employees’ altruistic choice and significantly increases either internal or external CSR has a negative effect on ethical egoism. Similarly, reducing perceptions of corporate hypocrisy can enhance the positive impact of external CSR on altruistic choice, which consequently reduces employees’ mental fatigue.

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Blueprints: Systematizing Behavior Change Designs—The Case of Social Comparison Theory

De Vries,

Lemke,

Ludden

2023

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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To improve people’s lives, human-computer interaction researchers are increasingly designing technological solutions based on behavior change theory, such as social comparison theory. However, how researchers operationalize such a theory as a design remains largely unclear. One way to clarify this methodological step is to clearly state which functional elements of a design are aimed at operationalizing a specific behavior change theory construct to evaluate if such aims were successful. In this paper, we investigate how the operationalization of functional elements of theories and designs can be more easily conveyed. First, we present a scoping review of the literature to determine the state of operationalizations of social comparison theory as behavior change designs. Second, we introduce a new tool to facilitate the operationalization process. We term the tool: Blueprints. A blueprint explicates essential functional elements of a behavior change theory by describing it in relation to necessary , and sufficient building blocks incorporated in a design. We describe the process of developing a blueprint for social comparison theory. Lastly, we illustrate how the blueprint can be used during the design refinement and reflection process.

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Operationalizing Behavior Change Theory as Part of Persuasive Technology: A Scoping Review on Social Comparison

Cited by 3 publications

References 29 publications

Potential associations between behavior change techniques and engagement with mobile health apps: a systematic review

Potential associations between behavior change techniques and engagement with mobile health apps: a systematic review

Impacts of Corporate Social Responsibility on Employees’ Mental Fatigue: Employees’ Ethical Perspective

Blueprints: Systematizing Behavior Change Designs—The Case of Social Comparison Theory

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