Creature of Habit: A self-report measure of habitual routines and automatic tendencies in everyday life
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.04.024" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.04.024</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.04.024" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.paid.2017.04.024</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Creature of Habit: A self-report measure of habitual routines and automatic tendencies in everyday life
Original language description
Our daily lives involve high levels of repetition of activities within similar contexts. We buy the same foods from the same grocery store, cook with the same spices, and typically sit at the same place at the dinner table. However, when questioned about these routine activities, most of us barely remember the details of our actions. Habits are automatically triggered behaviours in which we engage without conscious awareness or deliberate control. Although habits help us to operate efficiently, breaking them requires great effort. We have developed a 27-item questionnaire to measure individual differences in habitual responding in everyday life. The Creature of Habit Scale (COHS) incorporates two aspects of the general concept of habits, namely routine behaviour and automatic responses. Both aspects of habitual behaviour were weakly correlated with underlying anxiety levels, but showed a more substantial difference in relation to goal-oriented motivation. We also observed that experiences of adversity during childhood increased self-reported automaticity, and this effect was further amplified in participants who also reported exposure to stimulant drugs. The COHS is a valid and reliable self-report measure of habits, which may prove useful in a number of contexts where discerning individuals' propensity for habit is beneficial.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30215 - Psychiatry
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Personality and Individual Differences
ISSN
0191-8869
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
116
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
73-85
UT code for WoS article
000404490800014
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85018524014