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Empowering interventions to promote sustainable lifestyles: Testing the habit discontinuity hypothesis in a field experiment

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Verplanken, Bas, Roy, Deborah·2016·Journal of Environmental Psychology

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This study tested the habit discontinuity hypothesis, which states that behaviour change interventions are more effective when delivered in the context of life course changes. The assumption was that when habits are (temporarily) disturbed, people are more sensitive to new information and adopt a mind-set that is conducive to behaviour change. A field experiment was conducted among 800 participants, who received either an intervention promoting sustainable behaviours, or were in a no-intervention control condition. In both conditions half of the households had recently relocated, and were matched with households that had not relocated. Self-reported frequencies of twenty-five environment-related behaviours were assessed at baseline and eight weeks later. While controlling for past behaviour, habit strength, intentions, perceived control, biospheric values, personal norms, and personal involvement, the intervention was more effective among recently relocated participants. The results suggested that the duration of the ‘window of opportunity’ was three months after relocation.

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Authors
Verplanken, B., & Roy, D.
Venue
Journal of Environmental Psychology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-03
Volume
45
Pages
127-134
ISSN
0272-4944 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2173557205
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437
References
19
FWCI
46.55
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
hybrid

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