Jessop et al., 2014, Study 1: Affirming values increased exercise but also implementing if-then strategies eliminated this effect among adults one week later
Reference:
Jessop, D. C., Sparks, P., Buckland, N., Harris, P. R., & Churchill, S. (2013). Combining self-affirmation and implementation intentions: Evidence of detrimental effects on behavioral outcomes. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 47(2), 137-147.
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Adults who described times they had behaved kindly toward others (a type of values-affirmation) before receiving information about the health risks of a lack of exercise reported exercising more over the next week; however, if people also completed an implementation intention exercise (reflecting on how, when, and where they would increase their exercise) this benefit was eliminated.
Psychological Process:
What Desired Meaning is At Stake?
What is the Person Trying to Understand?
To See the Self as AdequateApproach to Desired Meaning
What about it?
Remedy Threats to Self-Integrity that Undermine FunctioningHow?
Psychological Question Addressed
Am I under threat, because I am doing something that harms my health?Am I under threat, because I am doing something that harms my health?Psychological Question Addressed
Am I under threat, because I am doing something that harms my health?Psychological Process 2:
What is the Person Trying to Understand?
What Desired Meaning is At Stake?
What Desired Meaning is At Stake?
Selves (My Own and Others')How?
Psychological Question Addressed
Where and when will I accomplish my goals?Where and when will I accomplish my goals?Psychological Question Addressed
Psychological Question Addressed
Where and when will I accomplish my goals?Psychological Process 3:
Social Area:
Health
Intervention Technique:
Active reflection, values-affirmation; Active reflection, on goals