Incentivizing Meditation App Habit Formation

The Calm app is downloadable by participants onto their smartphone to access meditations and other Calm app features during the intervention period. Participants in the AC+ARwdC group will watch a video with information about the study, conditional rewards, and how to create an anchoring plan for their meditation habit. Weekly text message reminders will be sent during the intervention period to reinforce use of the anchoring plan. Participants in the AC+ARwdC group will be offered incentives for using their anchoring plan during the intervention period and for completing the baseline, post-intervention, and follow-up surveys.

The Calm app is downloadable by participants onto their smartphone to access meditations and other Calm app features during the intervention period. Participants in the AC+RwdC group will watch a video with information about the study, conditional rewards, and how to create an anchoring plan for their meditation habit. Weekly text message reminders will be sent during the intervention period to reinforce use of the anchoring plan. Participants in the AC+RwdC group will be offered incentives for meditating during the intervention period and for completing the baseline, post-intervention, and follow-up surveys.

The Calm app is downloadable by participants onto their smartphone to access meditations and other Calm app features during the intervention period. Participants in the UC group will watch a video with information about the study and how to create an anchoring plan for their meditation habit. Participants in the UC group will be offered incentives for completing the baseline, post-intervention, and follow-up surveys.