The majority of studies have investigated effects of habit on health behaviour (82 studies; 60% of all studies).
Automaticity is the 'active ingredient' of effects of habit on action (Gardner, Abraham, Lally, & de Bruijn, 2012).
Empirical tests have tended to support the two predicted effects of habit on action, but some results have been unexpected.
Applications of this 'behaviour frequency × context stability' (BFCS) measure have identified theorized effects of habit on action, predicting behaviour frequency and demonstrating an interaction with intention in guiding behaviour (Ji & Wood, 2007; Ouellette & Wood, 1998; Wood, Tam, & Witt, 2005).
Fourth, the effect of habit strength on future behavior was to a large extent mediated by previous behavior.
The mediated effect of previous behavior accounted for 58% and 83% of the total effect of habit strength on future behavior at T2 and T3 respectively.
Furthermore, our findings showed that the effect of habit strength on future behavior was to a large extent mediated by previous behavior.
Fourth, our results showed that the effect of habit strength on future behavior was to a large extent mediated by previous behavior.
First, while our data supports the importance of both habit and previous behavior, the data also revealed that in our study previous behavior was a more direct predictor than habit: the effect of habit strength on future behavior was to a large extent mediated by previous behavior.
Therefore, the complete information about these habits is warranted to analyze or interpret reasonably the effect of each habit on LFTs.
