Evidence inhibitory self-control moderates effects of habit on complex but not simple health behaviors.

IF 3.8 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED Applied psychology. Health and well-being Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1111/aphw.12642
Daniel J Phipps, Martin S Hagger, Kyra Hamilton
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Theoretically, self-control can be considered as both a facilitator of habit development and a moderator of whether behavior occurs habitually. However, debate remains on the contexts in which such relationships are likely to occur. The current study tested whether self-control, conceptualized into inhibitory and initiatory facets, would predict healthy behavior via habits or moderate the habit-behavior relationship, and whether these effects differed across complex (bootcamp attendance N = 69, physical activity in pregnant women N = 115) and simple (flossing N = 254) behaviors. Three independent samples completed measures of self-control and habit, followed by a prospective measure of behavior. Data were fitted to PLS-SEM models. Inhibitory and initiatory self-control predicted habit in all three samples, and habit in turn predicted each health behavior. Inhibitory self-control only moderated the effect of habit in the bootcamp and physical activity samples. Initiatory self-control did not moderate effects in any sample. Findings indicate that both initiatory and inhibitory self-control are associated with habit. Further, as the moderating effect of inhibitory self-control was only present in the complex behavior samples, results suggest the moderating effects of self-control on the habit-behavior relationship may be best represented by the effect of inhibiting competing cues from disrupting automatically activated behavioral sequences.

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证据抑制性自我控制调节习惯对复杂而非简单的健康行为的影响。
从理论上讲,自我控制既可以被认为是习惯形成的促进者,也可以被认为是行为是否习惯性发生的调节者。然而,关于这种关系可能发生的背景仍然存在争议。目前的研究测试了自我控制(概念化为抑制和启动两个方面)是否会通过习惯预测健康行为或调节习惯-行为关系,以及这些影响是否在复杂行为(参加训练营N = 69,孕妇体育活动N = 115)和简单行为(使用牙线N = 254)中有所不同。三个独立的样本完成了自我控制和习惯的测量,随后是对行为的前瞻性测量。数据拟合到PLS-SEM模型中。抑制性和主动性自我控制预测了所有三个样本中的习惯,而习惯反过来又预测了每种健康行为。抑制性自我控制仅在训练营和体育活动样本中调节习惯的影响。初始自我控制在任何样本中都没有适度的效果。研究结果表明,起始型和抑制性自我控制都与习惯有关。此外,由于抑制性自我控制的调节作用仅存在于复杂行为样本中,结果表明,自我控制对习惯-行为关系的调节作用可能最好地体现在抑制干扰自动激活行为序列的竞争线索的作用上。
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期刊介绍: Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International Association of Applied Psychology. It was established in 2009 and covers applied psychology topics such as clinical psychology, counseling, cross-cultural psychology, and environmental psychology.
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