Trial reportJournal of behavioral medicine2014
Financial motivation undermines potential enjoyment in an intensive diet and activity intervention.
Trial report in Journal of behavioral medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Using financial incentives to promote physical activity in American Indian adolescents: A randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2018Trial
- Active children through individual vouchers - evaluation (ACTIVE): protocol for a mixed method randomised control trial to increase physical activity levels in teenagers.BMC public health · 2017Trial
- A cluster randomised controlled trial of an intervention to promote healthy lifestyle habits to school leavers: study rationale, design, and methods.BMC public health · 2014Trial
- Why Do You Want a Romantic Relationship? Individual Differences in Motives for Romantic Relationship Pursuit.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2026Article
- Parental influence on urban adolescents' physical activity experience.Leisure sciences · 2024Article
- 'Weighing' Losses and Gains: Evaluation of the Healthy Lifestyle Modification After Breast Cancer Pilot Program.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Associations between previous sport and exercise experience and physical literacy elements among physically inactive Danes.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Formative Assessment: Design of a Web-Connected Sedentary Behavior Intervention for Females.JMIR human factors · 2017Article
- Secondary data analysis from a randomized trial examining the effects of small financial incentives on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for weight loss.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2017Article
- Efficient Allocation of Public Health and Behavior Change Resources: The "Difficulty by Motivation" Matrix.American journal of public health · 2017Article
- Addressing sleep disturbances: an opportunity to prevent cardiometabolic disease?International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) · 2014Review
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Abstract
The use of material incentives in healthy lifestyle interventions is becoming widespread. However, self-determination theory (SDT) posits that when material incentives are perceived as controlling, they undermine intrinsic motivation. We analyzed data from the Make Better Choices trial-a trial testing strategies for improving four risk behaviors: low fruit-vegetable intake, high saturated fat intake, low physical activity, and high sedentary activity. At baseline, participants reported the degree to which financial incentives were an important motivator (financial motivation); self-reported enjoyment of each behavior was assessed before and after the 3-week incentivization phase. Consistent with SDT, after controlling for general motivation and group assignment, lower financial motivation predicted more adaptive changes in enjoyment. Whereas participants low in financial motivation experienced adaptive changes, adaptive changes were suppressed among those high in financial motivation.
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