Brightness Motivates Healthy Behaviors: The Role of Self-Accountability

IF 5.2 2区 心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environment and Behavior Pub Date : 2021-06-26 DOI:10.1177/00139165211026609
Eugene Y. Chan
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Abstract

A growing literature suggests the possibility that brightness (vs. darkness) affects myriad human behaviors and how people think. One stream suggests that brightness increases self-awareness. We extend these findings and formally hypothesize that brightness (vs. darkness) increases self-accountability, thereby motivating people to take actions to meet their self-standards for health, of which most people generally fall short. Three experimental studies were conducted. The results indicate that brightness increases healthier food choices (Study 1) and physical activity intentions (Study 2). Self-accountability mediates the effect (Study 2), while manipulating self-accountability moderates it (Study 3), thereby providing evidence for its likely causal role in explaining the impact of brightness on facilitating healthy behaviors. The findings offer insights into the positive benefits of brightness beyond past findings that it improves mood and psychological well-being. Limitations of the current research as well as future research directions are discussed.
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光明激励健康行为:自我责任的作用
越来越多的文献表明,光明(与黑暗)可能会影响无数的人类行为和人们的思维方式。一种观点认为,明亮可以增强自我意识。我们扩展了这些发现,并正式假设明亮(与黑暗相比)会增加自我责任感,从而激励人们采取行动来达到他们的健康自我标准,而大多数人通常达不到这一标准。进行了三项实验研究。结果表明,亮度增加了更健康的食物选择(研究1)和体育活动意向(研究2)。自我问责调节了这种影响(研究2),而操纵自我问责则调节了它(研究3),从而为其在解释亮度对促进健康行为的影响方面可能的因果作用提供了证据。这些发现让我们深入了解了明亮的积极好处,而不是过去的发现,即它可以改善情绪和心理健康。讨论了当前研究的局限性以及未来的研究方向。
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期刊介绍: Environment & Behavior is an interdisciplinary journal designed to report rigorous experimental and theoretical work focusing on the influence of the physical environment on human behavior at the individual, group, and institutional levels.
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