Abstract—The study of school pupils’ daily habits is of importance for diverse fields such as sociology and education. Previous related work mainly focused on some specific attribute or habit of students, which ignored many important factors and failed to exploit the correlation among habit-related factors. In this paper, we conduct a comparative analysis of school pupils’ daily habits in Germa...

Abstract Background The prevalence of smoking among adolescents is high in Indonesia. Therefore, this qualitative research aimed to explore the perspectives Muslim on habits as a reference for developing effective prevention programs. Methods Three focus group discussions involving 24 junior school male students (mean age = 13.75 years) were main source data phenomenological study. discussion g...

This study tested the idea of habits as a form of goal-directed automatic behavior. Expanding on the idea that habits are mentally represented as associations between goals and actions, it was proposed that goals are capable of activating the habitual action. More specific, when habits are established (e.g., frequent cycling to the university), the very activation of the goal to act (e.g., havi...