Leveraging Self-Affirmation to Improve Behavior Change: A Mobile Health App Experiment

Abstract Background: mHealth interventions can help to improve the physical well-being of participants. Unfortunately, mHealth interventions often have low adherence and high attrition. One possible way to increase adherence is instructing participants to complete self-affirmation exercises. Self-affirmation exercises have been effective in increasing many types of positive behaviors. However, self-affirmation exercises often involve extensive essay … Read more Leveraging Self-Affirmation to Improve Behavior Change: A Mobile Health App Experiment