Brightness Motivates Healthy Behaviors: The Role of Self-Accountability. Issue 2 (February 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Brightness Motivates Healthy Behaviors: The Role of Self-Accountability. Issue 2 (February 2022)
- Main Title:
- Brightness Motivates Healthy Behaviors: The Role of Self-Accountability
- Authors:
- Chan, Eugene Y.
- Abstract:
- A growing literature suggests the possibility that brightness (vs. darkness) affects myriad human behaviors and how people think. One stream suggests that brightness increases self-awareness. We extend these findings and formally hypothesize that brightness (vs. darkness) increases self-accountability, thereby motivating people to take actions to meet their self-standards for health, of which most people generally fall short. Three experimental studies were conducted. The results indicate that brightness increases healthier food choices (Study 1) and physical activity intentions (Study 2). Self-accountability mediates the effect (Study 2), while manipulating self-accountability moderates it (Study 3), thereby providing evidence for its likely causal role in explaining the impact of brightness on facilitating healthy behaviors. The findings offer insights into the positive benefits of brightness beyond past findings that it improves mood and psychological well-being. Limitations of the current research as well as future research directions are discussed.
- Is Part Of:
- Environment and behavior. Volume 54:Issue 2(2022)
- Journal:
- Environment and behavior
- Issue:
- Volume 54:Issue 2(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 54, Issue 2 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 54
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0054-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 363
- Page End:
- 382
- Publication Date:
- 2022-02
- Subjects:
- brightness -- self-accountability -- healthy behaviors -- food choice -- physical activity
Human ecology -- Periodicals
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http://firstsearch.oclc.org/journal=0013-9165;screen=info;ECOIP ↗
http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/ij/sage/00139165/contp1.htm ↗
http://www.umi.com/proquest ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/00139165211026609 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0013-9165
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