Habits in Everyday Life: Thought, Emotion, and Action
Wood, W., Quinn, J. M., & Kashy, D. A. (2002). 'Habits in Everyday Life: Thought, Emotion, and Action.' Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83(6), 1281-1297. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.83.6.1281. the origin of the forty-three per cent and the single most important source in this file. DESIGN: two signal-contingent diary studies, not three. Study 1, 70 undergraduates (35 women, 35 men) at Texas A&M in partial fulfilment of an introductory psychology requirement, one day of recording, a further 19 excluded for completing the form wrongly or retrospectively, recording the SINGLE behaviour at each hourly chime. Study 2, 209 undergraduates (131 women, 78 men), same campus and course credit, TWO days, a further 16 excluded on the same grounds, recording ALL behaviours at each chime. A programmed wristwatch chimed hourly while participants were awake; entries were to be made as events occurred. FINDING, verbatim: 'As can be seen in Tables 1 and 2, between a third and a half of all behaviors listed were classified as habits, given that they were performed just about every day and usually in the same location. This estimate was greater in Study 2 (43%) than in Study 1 (35%), chi-square(1, N = 6,830) = 14.34, p < .01, consistent with our expectation that the procedure of listing
Wood, W., Quinn, J. M., & Kashy, D. A. (2002). 'Habits in Everyday Life: Thought, Emotion, and Action.' Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83(6), 1281-1297. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.83.6.1281. the origin of the forty-three per cent and the single most important source in this file. DESIGN: two signal-contingent diary studies, not three. Study 1, 70 undergraduates (35 women, 35 men) at Texas A&M in partial fulfilment of an introductory psychology requirement, one day of recording, a further 19 excluded for completing the form wrongly or retrospectively, recording the SINGLE behaviour at each hourly chime. Study 2, 209 undergraduates (131 women, 78 men), same campus and course credit, TWO days, a further 16 excluded on the same grounds, recording ALL behaviours at each chime. A programmed wristwatch chimed hourly while participants were awake; entries were to be made as events occurred. FINDING, verbatim: 'As can be seen in Tables 1 and 2, between a third and a half of all behaviors listed were classified as habits, given that they were performed just about every day and usually in the same location. This estimate was greater in Study 2 (43%) than in Study 1 (35%), chi-square(1, N = 6,830) = 14.34, p < .01, consistent with our expectation that the procedure of listing
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Wood, W., Quinn, J. M., & Kashy, D. A. (2002). Habits in Everyday Life: Thought, Emotion, and Action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83(6), 1281-1297.