Motivating Healthy Diet Behaviors: The Self-as-Doer Identity

Self-as-doer for diabetes: development and validation of a diabetes-specific measure of doer identification.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a scale to measure the level of self-care behavior "doer identity" in persons with diabetes. METHODS Persons with diabetes (N = 355) completed questionnaires assessing self-as-doer identity and other related constructs. Principle components and parallel analyses and tests of reliability and validity were performed. RESULTS A 7...

The identity impairment model: a longitudinal study of self-schemas as predictors of disordered eating behaviors.

BACKGROUND There is broad consensus that the eating disorders of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa stem from fundamental disturbances in identity development, but theoretically based empirical support is lacking. OBJECTIVE To extend work on the identity impairment model by investigating the relationship between organizational properties of the self-concept and change in disordered eating b...

Identity and Self-Other Differentiation in Work and Giving Behaviors:

We show that the distinction between Self and Other, ‘us’ and ‘them,’ or in-group and out-group, affects significantly economic and social behavior. In a series of experiments with approximately 200 Midwestern students as our subjects, we found that they favor those who are similar to them on any of a wide range of categories of identity over those who are not like them. Whereas family and kins...

Motivating voter turnout by invoking the self.

Three randomized experiments found that subtle linguistic cues have the power to increase voting and related behavior. The phrasing of survey items was varied to frame voting either as the enactment of a personal identity (e.g., "being a voter") or as simply a behavior (e.g., "voting"). As predicted, the personal-identity phrasing significantly increased interest in registering to vote (experim...

Self Affirmation and Identity as Behavioral Interventions