Promoting Prosociality via Micro-acts of Joy: A Large-Scale Well-Being Intervention Study

要旨

Prosociality has been well-documented to positively impact mental, social, and physical well-being. However, existing studies of interventions for promoting prosociality have limitations such as small sample sizes or unclear benchmarks. To address this gap, we conducted a global-scale well-being intervention deployment study, BIGJOY, with more than 18,000 participants from 172 countries and regions. The week-long BIGJOY intervention consists of seven daily micro-acts (i.e., brief actions that require minimal effort), each adapted from validated positive psychology interventions. The analyses of large-scale intervention data reveal unique insights into the impact of well-being micro-acts across diverse populations, patterns of responses, effectiveness of specific micro-acts and their nuanced impacts across different populations, linkages between improvements in prosociality and in well-being, as well as the potential for machine learning to predict changes in prosociality. This study offers valuable insights into a set of design guidelines for future well-being and prosociality interventions. We envision our work as a stepping stone towards future large-scale prosociality interventions that foster a more unified and compassionate world.

著者
Hitesh Goel
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Yoobin Park
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Jin Liou
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Darwin A. Guevarra
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Peggy Callahan
VOICES4FREEDOM, Los Angeles, California, United States
Jolene Smith
VOICES4FREEDOM, Los Angeles, California, United States
Bingsheng Yao
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dakuo Wang
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Xin Liu
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Daniel McDuff
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Noemie Elhadad
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
Emiliana Simon-Thomas
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
Elissa Epel
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Xuhai "Orson" Xu
Columbia University, New York City, New York, United States
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713947

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713947

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Mental and Emotional Wellbeing

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