Role Of Habits Research Articles

Zur Krise der menschlichen Selbsterkenntnis

This text tries to investigate the relationship between Bildung and liberation. According to a certain Hegelianism Bildung is mainly characterized as the acquiring of a second nature or habit. This means that the subject of Bildung has to undergo a metaphysical transformation with the end of becoming a rational being. As second nature our rational capacities are supposed to be free and unfree at the same time. I want to argue that this is not what Hegel has in mind when he thinks about the relation between Bildung and freedom. Rather this reading is the result of a confusion about the role of habit in subjective spirit and objective spirit. In contrast I want to argue that if this Hegelianism is right, we couldn’t comprehend the very possibility of our freedom. Instead, Hegel wants to show us that the very idea of a metaphysical transformation rests upon the assumption that the learning subject does something different than the teaching subject. However, if we want to make sense of the idea of Bildung we must conceive it as a process in which the learning and the teaching subject perform the same activity on different levels of perfection. Only then can we understand the unity of the act that is Bildung.

The determinants of ChatGPT usage among accounting students: the role of habit, social influence and facilitating conditions

Purpose: The aim of this study is to determine how habit, social influence, and facilitating conditions influence accounting students’ use of ChatGPT. Methodology/approach: The study was conducted among bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and postgraduate students studying accounting-related majors at the University of Economics in Katowice. Ordinal logistic regression was used to analyze 237 responses. Findings: The study confirms that the accounting students use ChatGPT primarily for self-studying and preparing projects and homework, with facilitating conditions, habits, and gender having a statistically significant impact on its use. Maintaining habits positively impacts the use of ChatGPT. The gender comparison indicates that women are less likely to use it than men. Research limitations: The study was conducted only at one economic university in Poland. Originality/value: The results reveal that ChatGPT use is a habit for 5% of accounting students. The results of our study highlight the need to conduct further research in this area, to include ChatGPT in professional activities and teaching to make users aware of the dangers (including ethical ones) associated with the use of artificial intelligence in accounting practice and to familiarize accounting teachers with it to help shape good habits among future accountants.

The Role of Habit and Perceived Usefulness on the Continuance Intention of Subscription Video on Demand Services in Indonesia

In the midst of the rising popularity of Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD), the industry faces significant challenges. The high churn rate and the abundance of competitors in the SVOD industry necessitate that service providers develop strategies to maintain consumer interest. Consumers who significantly contribute to the high churn rate are Generation Y and Generation Z, also known as digital natives. This study aims to analyze how factors within the Expectancy Confirmation Model can influence the Continuance Intention of SVOD users. This descriptive study employs a cross- sectional design. The respondents of this study consist of 159 active SVOD users. The findings reveal that confirmation and individual mobility significantly influence perceived usefulness. Additionally, confirmation, perceived usefulness, and perceived enjoyment significantly affect satisfaction. Furthermore, satisfaction, perceived usefulness, and habit are significant predictors of continuance intention. However, the influence of individual mobility and perceived enjoyment on continuance intention is not significant. Practically, this study provides insights for SVOD service providers to develop marketing strategies that enhance consumer habit and satisfaction. Academically, this study combines two models from previous researchs making the model and variables used more comprehensive in explaining the predictors of continuance intention.

Role of Habit in Household Waste Recycling Behavior: Evidence from an Emerging Country

Role of Habit in Household Waste Recycling Behavior: Evidence from an Emerging Country

What is habit and how can it be used to change real‐world behaviour? Narrowing the theory‐reality gap

AbstractHabit change is often seen as key to successful long‐term behaviour change. Making ‘good’ behaviours habitual—that is, ensuring a behaviour is prompted automatically on exposure to situational cues, based on cue‐response associations learnt through context‐consistent repetition—is portrayed as a mechanism for sustaining such behaviours over time. Conversely, disrupting ‘bad’ habits is expected to terminate longstanding unwanted actions. Yet, some commentators have suggested that the role of habit in real‐world behaviour and behaviour change has been overstated. Such critiques highlight a gap between habit theory and the reality of human behaviour ‘in the wild’. This state‐of‐the‐field review aims to narrow this gap. Building on a core distinction between habit and habitual behaviour, our review seeks to offer interpretations of habit theory and evidence that will better manage intervention designers' expectations regarding how modifying habit can realistically be expected to promote behaviour change. We emphasise that habit is just one potential influence on behaviour at any given moment, and highlight instances in which habit may dominate over intention, and in which intention may dominate over habit, in determining behaviour frequency. We suggest that, while it may assist behaviour maintenance, habit formation may be neither necessary nor sufficient to sustain real‐world behaviour change. We draw attention to the various ways in which habit may be ‘broken’ (i.e., disrupted), and discern the implications of each habit disruption mechanism for long‐term cessation of unwanted behaviours.

Enhancing AIKU Adoption: Insights from the Role of Habit in Behavior Intention

Enhancing AIKU Adoption: Insights from the Role of Habit in Behavior Intention

Determinants of Purchase Intention in Social Media Advertising

Purpose: This study aims to explore the relationship between social media advertising, habit, privacy concern, and purchase intention among social media users interested in travel and leisure. Theoretical reference: The study draws upon theories related to consumer behavior, advertising effectiveness, and habit formation, as well as literature on privacy concerns in online environments. Method: Purposive sampling was employed, resulting in a sample size of 298 respondents. Data analysis techniques, likely including correlation and regression analysis, were utilized to examine the relationships between social media advertising, habit, privacy concern, and purchase intention. Results and Conclusion: The analysis revealed a statistically significant positive relationship between social media advertising and purchase intention, as well as between habit and purchase intention. However, the impact of privacy concern on purchase intention was positive but not statistically significant. Furthermore, habit was found to partially mediate the effect of social media advertising on purchase intention but was unable to mediate the effect of privacy concern on purchase intention. Implications of research: The findings underscore the importance of high-quality advertising on social media platforms and the cultivation of positive habits related to travel and leisure activities. Moreover, while privacy concerns positively influence purchase intention, the role of habit in mediating the effect of social media advertising demonstrates its significance in shaping purchase intention. Practically, these insights can aid companies in refining their advertising strategies and better understanding the behavioral dynamics of social media users, including their habits and privacy concerns. Originality/value: This research contributes to the existing literature by specifically examining the interplay between social media advertising, habit formation, privacy concerns, and purchase intention within the context of travel and leisure. The study offers valuable insights into the complexities of consumer behavior in online environments and provides practical implications for companies aiming to enhance their marketing strategies in the social media landscape.

The role of habit in maintaining binge/purge behaviors: An ecological momentary assessment study.

Individuals with eating disorders transdiagnostically engage in binge eating (BE) and/or purging, despite life-threatening consequences. Little is known about factors that contribute to the persistence of these behaviors. This study explored whether habitual control over binge/purge (B/P) spectrum behaviors contributes to symptom persistence and whether negative reinforcement via reductions in negative affect is less influential in maintaining B/P behaviors that are under habitual control and are persistent. Women with BE and/or purging (N = 81) completed self-report measures assessing habit strength of BE and purging. Then, they completed a 14-day ecological momentary assessment (EMA) protocol during which they completed measures of negative affect, BE, and purging multiple times per day. Habitual control over purging was associated with a greater frequency of purging during the EMA period. However, habitual control over BE was not associated with the severity of loss of control eating or the frequency of BE episodes. Habitual control did not moderate temporal relations between negative affect and B/P behaviors during the EMA period. However, exploratory analyses revealed that individuals with a longer duration of BE and greater habitual control over BE showed a less pronounced reduction in negative affect following BE. Overall, these findings suggest that purging may be maintained by habitual stimulus-response learning. In addition, they support the possibility that reduction in negative affect may play a less prominent role in maintaining BE that is habitual and persistent. This study investigated whether habit contributes to the persistence of symptoms in women with binge/purge spectrum behaviors and whether negative reinforcement via reductions in negative affect is less influential in maintaining binge/purge behaviors that are under habitual control. The findings suggest that purging may be maintained through habit. This supports the potential utility of habit reversal interventions to decrease habitual purging.

Predicting sugar intake using an extended theory of planned behavior in a sample of adolescents: The role of habit and self-control.

High levels of sugar intake are associated with multiple maladaptive health outcomes in adult and younger populations. Identifying the psychological determinants of sugar intake in adolescents, and the processes involved, may help identify potentially modifiable targets and inform intervention development. We tested the predictions of an extended theoretical model based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), which specified social cognition constructs, habit, and self-control as correlates of sugar intake in an adolescent sample. Adolescents aged 12 to 14 years (N=88) recruited via a survey panel company and consenting to participate in the study completed online self-report measures of constructs from the TPB alongside measures of habit and self-control. One month later, participants completed a follow-up measure of free-sugar intake. Hypothesized effects of our proposed extended model were tested using partial least squares structural equation modeling. We found statistically significant effects of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control on sugar intake intentions. We also found significant effects of habit and self-control on sugar intake measured at follow-up, but no effect for intention. Perceived behavioral control moderated the intention-behavior relationship such that intention effects on behavior were larger when perceived behavioral control was high. However, self-control did not moderate the intention-behavior relationship. Results indicate that sugar intake in this sample was a function of habits and self-control, and the effect of sugar intake intentions was conditional on perceived behavioral control. Results contribute to an evidence base of determinants and associated processes that relate to sugar intake in adolescents and may signal potentially modifiable targets for intervention.

Habits & Health Promotion in OT: A Scoping Review

Abstract Date Presented 04/20/2023 Given the prevalence of chronic diseases and the role of habits in promoting health, this scoping review maps the state of the literature on the role of OT in habits and health promotion to determine future research avenues. Primary Author and Speaker: Erin E. Epley Contributing Authors: Jarrett Wolske, Jenica Lee, Mansha Mirza, Gail Fisher

Habits of Mind

Although pragmatism and phenomenology have both contributed significantly to the genealogy of so-called “4E” – embodied, embedded, enactive and extended – cognition, there is benefit to be had from a systematic comparative study of these roots. As existing 4E cognition literature has tended to emphasise one or the other tradition, issues remain to be addressed concerning their commonalities – and possible incompatibilities. We begin by exploring pragmatism and phenomenology’s shared focus on contesting intellectualism, and its key assumption of mindedness as representation. We then outline distinctive insights from both traditions regarding the nature and role of habits, in order to put forward a habit-based epistemology as an alternative to the Cartesian idea-based epistemology that has dominated modern philosophy. We pay particular attention to the work of classical pragmatist C.S. Peirce, arguing that his semiotics, which analyses sign-use as habit, shows how theorists of embodied cognition can break a certain false dichotomy between embodiment and logical or intellectual structure which has prevented them from fully theorising propositional knowledge. In this way, our work both augments and challenges the Dewey/Merleau-Ponty connection that has been much more extensively explored by the field.

Associations Between Planned Exercise, Walking, Incidental Physical Activity, and Habit Strength in Older People: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Habits play an important role in physical activity (PA) engagement; however, these associations in older people are not well understood. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between engagement in types of PA and their automaticity in older people, using an observational, cross-sectional design. Current hours engaged in planned exercise (excluding walking), planned walking, and incidental activities and the automaticity of those PA behaviors were measured in 127 community-dwelling Australians aged 65 years and older via an online questionnaire. After controlling for demographic and health factors (age, gender, education level, body mass index, history of falls, and anxiety and depression symptoms), higher automaticity scores were associated with more hours undertaking planned walking and incidental activity but not planned exercise. Although preliminary, these findings indicate that the role of habit in maintaining PA in older people may, therefore, differ depending on the type of activity.

Public and Private Information Sharing under "New Normal" of COVID-19: Understanding the Roles of Habit and Outcome Expectation.

Information sharing is critical in risk communication and management during the COVID-19 epidemic, and information sharing has been a part of individual prevention and particular lifestyles under the “New Normal” of COVID-19. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore influencing factors and mechanisms in public and private information sharing intention among people under the regular risk situation. This study investigated an information sharing mechanism based on a cross-sectional design. We collected 780 valid responses through a sample database of an online questionnaire platform and utilized partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to further analyze the data. To explore the difference caused by news frames, we divided respondents into two groups according to the news frame (action frame vs. reassurance frame) and proceeded with the multi-group analysis. The results showed that four types of outcome expectations (information seeking, emotion regulation, altruism and public engagement) and habit had impacts on public and private information sharing intention. Two paths influencing information sharing proposed in this study were supported. The results showed that outcome expectations were positively related to habit, which implies that the cognitive mechanism was positively relevant to the formation of habit. The results proved that habit played a mediating role between outcome expectations and information sharing. This research found that emotion regulation and public engagement outcome expectations only affected two types of information sharing intention mediated by habit. Regarding the role of the news frame, this study found no significant difference between the group exposed to action-framed news and the group exposed to reassurance-framed news. By exploring influencing factors and the mechanism of information sharing under the “New Normal”, these findings contribute to understanding of information sharing and have implications on risk management. The proposed mechanism classifying public and private information sharing complements risk information flowing by considering online risk incubation.

Aesthetics as a Habit: Between Constraints and Freedom, Nudges and Creativity

This paper is a preliminary attempt to bring to the fore some questions and issues regarding the role of habits in aesthetics. Indeed, much attention has recently been given to habits across a wide range of fields of inquiry: philosophers turn to the concept to investigate its significance to the historical development of Western thought; neuroscientists look into the role that habits play in the functioning of the human mind and identify the neural and psychological underpinnings of habitual behavior; anthropologists, political scientists and sociologists tap into habits as a key notion to explain social dynamics and collective behavior. For all of these waves that the notion has made in other parts of the humanities and social sciences, there have been so far, however, only a few sustained discussions of habits in conjunction with aesthetics. What is the role of habits in aesthetic experience? How do habits influence and regulate artistic creative processes?

Continuance Usage of Mobile SMS: The Moderating Role of Habit

Continuance Usage of Mobile SMS: The Moderating Role of Habit

Continuance usage of mobile SMS: the moderating role of habit

Continuance usage of mobile SMS: the moderating role of habit

Group value learned through interactions with members: A reinforcement learning account

How do group-based interaction tendencies form through encounters with individual group members? In four experiments, in which participants interacted with group members in a reinforcement learning task presented as a money sharing game, participants formed instrumental reward associations with individual group members through direct interaction and feedback. Results revealed that individual-level reward learning generalized to a group-based representation, as indicated in self-reported group attitudes, trait impressions, and the tendency to choose subsequent interactions with novel members of the group. Experiments 3 and 4 further demonstrated that group-based reward effects on interaction choices persisted even when past group reward value was no longer predicted of future positive outcomes, consistent with a habit-like expression of group bias. These results demonstrate a novel process of prejudice formation based on instrumental reward learning from direct interactions with individual group members. We discuss implications for existing theories of prejudice, the role of habit in intergroup bias, and intervention strategies to reduce prejudice.

Habit drives sustainable tourist behaviour

Most practical interventions the tourism industry deploys to make tourists behave in more environmentally sustainable ways when they are at their premises or destination – such as the request to reuse towels to protect the environment – rely on attention and cognitive processing. We propose that focusing instead on habit, as the key construct, will be more effective in achieving behavioural change. This study discusses the – largely neglected – role of habit in our understanding of tourist behaviour and provides initial empirical proof of concept of the explanatory power of habit. Findings suggest that entirely new types of behavioural interventions should be developed, which aim at breaking bad vacation habits through disrupting automaticity, such as reducing plate size to prevent overfilling of plates at the buffets, and re-establishing good habits people enact at home, such as by asking people to treat the hotel the same way they do their own home.

Binge watching and serial viewing: Comparing new media viewing habits in 2015 and 2020

IntroductionThe current study explores binge watching as a functional entertainment choice, and examines similarities and differences between it, appointment viewing, and serial viewing in terms of prevalence and technologies used over time. Methods/measurementsTwo surveys were conducted in fall 2015 (N = 373, 62% female and the mean age = 22.01 [SD = 5.92]) and in fall 2020 (N = 732, 69% female, mean age = 21.13 [SD = 4.98]. Surveys explored the frequency and duration of engaging in binge watching, serial viewing, and appointment viewing, as well as the role of habit in binge watching and the technologies employed to view content. Findings/resultsFrequency of binge watching and serial viewing increased from 2015 to 2020, and levels remain elevated from estimates just prior to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, which saw all types of viewing increase. Participants report most frequently engaging in serial viewing, followed binge watching, followed by appointment viewing. Appointment viewing frequency and duration has decreased. A binge-watching habit explains considerable variance in the frequency of binge watching. ConclusionsBinge watching has become a more common way to watch TV than traditional appointment viewing, which has decreased in both the frequency and time spent between 2015 and 2020. Serial viewing – a self-paced consumption of serialized narrative content over days, weeks, or months – is the most common way of watching television content. Serial viewing and binge watching are more closely associated with viewing content on television, demonstrating a shift from the personal screen to the living room.

Understanding continuance intention among MOOC participants: The role of habit and MOOC performance

This study aimed to understand the psychological processes underlying learners’ continuance intention to participate in massive open online courses (MOOCs). We proposed a research model incorporating three variables that are well-explored in the relevant literature, namely satisfaction, attitude and confirmation, and two rarely examined variables, namely perceived MOOC performance and habit. Two studies were conducted with Chinese MOOC learners using multiple data sources, specifically open online textual data, focus group interviews and questionnaire surveys. Our research revealed that perceptions of MOOC performance were represented by two attribute-level qualities, knowledge transmission quality and interaction quality. Interaction quality was not related to satisfaction with the learning experience, whereas a habit of choosing MOOCs as a learning mode was found to significantly increase continuance intention. The insights from this study can help guide MOOC instructors to improve the learner experience in this virtual environment, MOOC providers to maintain the sustainability of MOOCs and universities to prepare MOOCs for inclusion in blended classes.