Putting situational affordances in an intervention context: How the interaction between personality and intervention situations can help us explain differential intervention responses

We propose a framework in which interventions are described as situations affording the expression of certain personality traits to provide a systematic understanding of differential intervention response by personality traits. The goal of the present paper is twofold: 1) elaborate on the proposed f...

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Published in:PloS one 2024-12, Vol.19 (12), p.e0309180
Main Authors: Mertens, Esther C A, Thielmann, Isabel, Nocentini, Annalaura, Siezenga, Aniek M, van Gelder, Jean-Louis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Biology and Life Sciences
Computer and Information Sciences
Context
Decision making
Engineering and Technology
Evaluation
Female
Goal setting
Humans
Hypotheses
Influence
Intervention
Male
Medicine and Health Sciences
Netherlands
Personality
Personality traits
Research and Analysis Methods
Smartphone
Smartphones
Social interaction
Social Sciences
Young Adult
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Summary:We propose a framework in which interventions are described as situations affording the expression of certain personality traits to provide a systematic understanding of differential intervention response by personality traits. The goal of the present paper is twofold: 1) elaborate on the proposed framework, and 2) provide an initial test of this framework. We empirically tested this framework using data from a Randomized Controlled Trial (N = 176) that examined a smartphone-based intervention aimed at increasing future-oriented thinking and behavior, and assessed HEXACO personality traits. The results showed that more introverted and agreeable individuals profited most from the intervention. Although these results were not in line with our a priori predictions, they could be explained using the proposed situational affordances framework. This shows the potential of this framework in an intervention context, though more research and tests using different interventions are needed. Trial registration: The trial is registered in the Netherlands Trial Register number NL9671. Additionally, the hypotheses and analysis plan of the present study were pre-registered (AsPredicted #94684; https://aspredicted.org/95F_CDR).
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0309180