ArticleThe international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity2022
Effects of behavioral performance, intrinsic reward value, and context stability on the formation of a higher-order nutrition habit: an intensive longitudinal diary study.
Article in The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Effects of habit formation interventions on physical activity habit strength: meta-analysis and meta-regression.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Pooled it
- Predictors of long-term maintenance of changes in fruit and vegetables intake: a longitudinal analysis within a randomized controlled community trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026Trial
- Rooted in routine: Fostering higher order vegetable-shopping habits using a randomised simple planning intervention.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2025Trial
- Exploring habit strength, reward value, and context stability of sedentary activities in older adults: An ecological momentary assessment study.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2026Article
- Time to Form a Habit: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Health Behaviour Habit Formation and Its Determinants.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
backgroundHabits drive many of our health behaviors in our daily lives. However, little is known about the relative contribution of different key factors for habit formation in real-world contexts. We examined the effects of behavioral performance, intrinsic reward value (operationalized as tastiness), and context stability on the formation of a higher-order nutrition habit.
methodsParticipants were recruited via mailing lists and posts on social media platforms. N = 199 participants (M
resultsHabit strength significantly increased over time. This effect was strengthened in persons with high mean levels of behavioral performance. Furthermore, mean levels of behavioral performance, intrinsic reward value, and context stability were all positively related to mean levels of habit strength. There were no positive effects of daily intraindividual variations in the three examined factors on habit strength at the next day. There was an unexpected negative effect of daily behavioral performance on habit strength at the next day. We found little to no evidence for our expected and pre-registered interaction effects. In an additional exploratory analysis, there were positive effects of daily intraindividual variations in the three factors on habit strength at the same day.
conclusionsWe found that behavioral performance, intrinsic reward value, and context stability were all independent predictors of habit strength of a higher-order habit at the between-person level. However, we did not find the expected associations at the within-person level. Habit interventions should promote the consistent performance of the target behaviors in stable contexts.
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