TY - GEN
T1 - Habit Formation Dynamics
T2 - 23rd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2021
AU - Lewis, Robert
AU - Liu, Yuanbo
AU - Groh, Matthew
AU - Picard, Rosalind
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Mindfulness is widely recognized as an effective technique for managing mental and physical health. However, a significant challenge remains when attempting to transform its practice into a habit. To understand the individual characteristics and contexts that correlate with habit formation experiences, we conducted a six-week observational study involving 62 participants who planned to adopt a new mindful breathing habit. Overall, 47.4% (N = 1,234) of daily surveys were completed and 41 participants completed the post-study survey. Using a growth curve modeling framework, we confirm the presence of significant overall change in habit automaticity across participants in the first 21 days of habit practice. Furthermore, we identify four factors that are significantly correlated with the gradient of participant habit formation trajectories: how committed a participant is to building the habit before starting the practice period, their prior mindfulness experience, and two dimensions of personality – agreeableness and emotional stability.
AB - Mindfulness is widely recognized as an effective technique for managing mental and physical health. However, a significant challenge remains when attempting to transform its practice into a habit. To understand the individual characteristics and contexts that correlate with habit formation experiences, we conducted a six-week observational study involving 62 participants who planned to adopt a new mindful breathing habit. Overall, 47.4% (N = 1,234) of daily surveys were completed and 41 participants completed the post-study survey. Using a growth curve modeling framework, we confirm the presence of significant overall change in habit automaticity across participants in the first 21 days of habit practice. Furthermore, we identify four factors that are significantly correlated with the gradient of participant habit formation trajectories: how committed a participant is to building the habit before starting the practice period, their prior mindfulness experience, and two dimensions of personality – agreeableness and emotional stability.
KW - Growth curve modeling
KW - Habit formation
KW - Health behavior change
KW - Mindfulness
KW - Observational study
KW - Well-being
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-78645-8_44
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-78645-8_44
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85112054664
SN - 9783030786441
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 348
EP - 356
BT - HCI International 2021 - Posters - 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Proceedings
A2 - Stephanidis, Constantine
A2 - Antona, Margherita
A2 - Ntoa, Stavroula
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 24 July 2021 through 29 July 2021
ER -