How do construal levels affect the intertemporal choices of Internet addicts?

Li, Hongxia; Jin, Shenghua; Guo, Yafei

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.02.016

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“…1bHC81 (39)23.60HYP DDVIR, FDR1yBS CONCRETIZATION Main effect conditionC: High-level construal ➔ DD –E: Low-level construal ➔ DD ↓−Exp. 2HC102 (35)36.25HYP DDVIR, FDR1yBS CONCRETIZATION Main effect conditionC: High-level construal ➔ DD –E: Low-level construal ➔ DD ↓−Li et al (2016)Internet addicts / HC55 (39) / 55 (25)19 / 19HYP DDVIR, FDR6mBS ABSTRACTION Main effect conditionC: Low-level construal ➔ DD –E: High-level construal ➔ DD ↓No interaction effect condition and groupIn healthy control group:C: Low-level construal ➔ DD –E: High-level construal ➔ DD ↓In internet addicts group:C: Low-level construal ➔ DD –E: High-level construal ➔ DD ↓−Malkoc et al (2010)Exp. 1aHC102 (–)College studentsHYP FITB–3d-10dBS ABSTRACTION Main effect conditionC: Low-level construal ➔ DD –E: High-level construal ➔ DD ↓−Exp.…”

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“…When temporal distances are larger, events are more likely to be represented in abstract terms that capture their central features (high-level construals) than in more concrete and incidental terms (low-level construals). The studies by Kelley and Schmeichel (2015), Li et al (2016), and Malkoc, Zauberman, and Bettman (2010) tested the hypothesis that higher-level construals could lead to more patient behavior. This hypothesis is grounded in the argument that if a bias to the present is driven by contextual and concrete representations, then endorsing an abstract mindset should decrease the extent of these representations and thus attenuate delay discounting (Malkoc et al, 2010).…”

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Behavioral trainings and manipulations to reduce delay discounting: A systematic review

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In everyday decision-making, individuals make trade-offs between short-term and long-term benefits or costs. Depending on many factors, individuals may choose to wait for larger delayed reward, yet in other situations they may prefer the smaller, immediate reward. In addition to within-subject variation in the short-term versus long-term reward trade-off, there are also interindividual differences in delay discounting (DD), which have been shown to be quite stable. The extent to which individuals discount the value of delayed rewards turns out to be associated with important health and disorder-related outcomes: the more discounting, the more unhealthy or problematic choices. This has led to the hypothesis that DD can be conceptualized as trans-disease process. The current systematic review presents an overview of behavioral trainings and manipulations that have been developed to reduce DD in human participants aged 12 years or older. Manipulation studies mostly contain one session and measure DD directly after the manipulation. Training studies add a multiple session training component that is not per se related to DD, in between two DD task measurements. Ninety-eight studies (151 experiments) were identified that tested behavioral trainings and manipulations to decrease DD. Overall, results indicated that DD can be decreased, showing that DD is profoundly context dependent and changeable. Most promising avenues to pursue in future research seem to be acceptance-based/mindfulness-based trainings, and even more so manipulations involving a future orientation. Limitations and recommendations are discussed to identify the mechanistic processes that allow for changes in discount rate and behavior accordingly.

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Behavioral trainings and manipulations to reduce delay discounting: A systematic review

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“…A high prevalence of delay discounting has been noted among the individuals with opioid (Madden et al, 1997 ) or marijuana (Johnson et al, 2010 ) dependence, and in those with heroin (Kirby et al, 1999 ), and smoking (Ohmura et al, 2005 ) addiction. Such high rates of delay discounting have been observed among the individuals battling pathological gambling (Alessi and Petry, 2003 ) and Internet addiction (Saville et al, 2010 ; Li et al, 2016a , b , 2019 ; Weinstein et al, 2016 ). This notion of high delay discounting rate among the addicts is also supported in research on adolescent substance abuse (Stanger et al, 2012 ).…”

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Imagining the Future: Future Imagination Training Decreases Delay Discounting Among Internet Addicts and Non-Problematic Users

2021

Front. Psychol.

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To test whether future imagination can reduce the delay discounting rate of the Internet addicts, we recruited 40 Internet addicts (treatment sample) and 39 non-problematic users (control sample). We used a 2 (participant type: individuals with Internet addiction vs. non-problematic users) × 2 (training type: future event imagination training vs. control condition) × 2 (training session: first session vs. final session) mixed-subjects design to test our hypothesis. The participant type and training type were between the subjects and the training session was within the subject. Half of each sample (the Internet addicts and non-problematic users) was randomly assigned to complete five sessions of future imagination training and the other half was assigned to describe some daily events they had observed. We used the Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS) and delay discounting task to assess our outcome variable, such as addiction, impulsivity, and delay discounting rate. The results showed that the future imagination training significantly reduced the delay discounting rate (also for impulsivity and addiction) for both the Internet addicts and non-problematic users than the control condition. Besides, the negative effect of future imagination training on the delay discounting rates (for impulsivity and addiction) remained consistent across the five training sessions. These findings suggest that the future imagination training can be a useful approach to reduce the impulsivity among those who are addicted to the Internet.

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“…Such experiments have been thoroughly described by Freitas et al (2004) and constituted paper-and-pencil tests. This type of experiment has been employed by a number of researchers, such as Wakslak and Trope (2009), Fujita et al (2006), Brügger et al (2016, Ho et al (2015), and Li et al (2016). Participants were randomly assigned to one of the two construal-level conditions.…”

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Sustainable consumption

Ibrahim

Al-Ajlouni

2018

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Purpose While there has been a great deal of research to distinguish the factors that promote the adoption of sustainable consumption, however there has been a very little attention given to the contribution of justice, coping appraisal, and psychological distance. The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential role of deontic justice, protection motivation, and construal level theories to elucidate the green purchase intention. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 471 participants in a laboratory experiment. Then, structural equation modeling was carried out to analyze the data. Findings Protection motivation theory is valuable to apply specifically since it introduces the concept of coping appraisal. The findings demonstrate that deontic justice theory (DJT) is a suitable framework that can be employed to shed more light on sustainable consumption. The study shows that consumer can conceptualize a green product at different levels of concreteness or abstraction. Originality/value This study is a pioneering effort to look at sustainable consumption within the context of DJT. It departs from the more traditional research by repositioning moral obligation as the primary driver of green purchase intention and by elucidating when green purchase intention is elevated in investigating the moderating role of mindset.

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How do construal levels affect the intertemporal choices of Internet addicts?

Cited by 9 publications

References 49 publications

Behavioral trainings and manipulations to reduce delay discounting: A systematic review

Behavioral trainings and manipulations to reduce delay discounting: A systematic review

Imagining the Future: Future Imagination Training Decreases Delay Discounting Among Internet Addicts and Non-Problematic Users

Sustainable consumption

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