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Promoting exercise behavior with monetary and social incentives: An empirical study based on an online fitness program

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    Department of Management Science, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

  • 2.

    Business School, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

  • 3.

    Division of Business Management, Beijing Normal University – Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, Zhuhai 519087, China

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    Zhiguo Zhang is a postgraduate student at the School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests include social media, e-health, and information privacy

    Jun Zhang is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Information Management, Wuhan University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Information Systems from the City University of Hong Kong in 2016. His research interests include online deviant behaviors, information privacy and security, e-health, and human-computer interaction. His research has been published in many academic journals and conferences, such as ISR, JMIS, CHB, I&M, IT&P, ICIS, and PACIS. He currently serves as an associate editor for CAIS, and has served as a guest associate editor for EJIS, JGIM, ICIS, PACIS, ECIS, etc

  • Corresponding author: E-mail: jzhang90@ustc.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 06 April 2022
  • Accepted Date: 23 May 2022
    • Available Online: 06 September 2022
    Abstract

  • Abstract

    Due to the importance of employees’ physical well-being, organizations have long been conducting wellness programs to motivate their employees to exercise. The wide use of wearable devices (e.g., smart bands and smartphones) and fitness applications (e.g., fitness mobile applications) enable organizations to shift from offline to online fitness programs where participants use physical activity records tracked by wearable devices to complete fitness tasks and challenges. To better motivate employees’ exercise behavior, online fitness programs widely offer monetary or social incentives strategies. However, little is known about the interaction effects of the two types of incentives when they are jointly offered. Besides, organizers lack knowledge of how to set an optimal fitness challenge for the incentives in online fitness programs. In this study, we obtained a rich panel dataset from a university-wide online fitness program, which includes the daily exercise records of 2578 participants during a 100-day period, to empirically investigate the joint effects of monetary and social incentives on individuals’ exercise behavior. Most interestingly, we found that there is a crowd-out effect between monetary and social incentives—the influences of social incentives (i.e., social support and social contagion) are relatively weaker when there exists an unachieved monetary goal; once the monetary goal has been achieved, the influences of social incentives become stronger. In addition, we found that participants’ exercise behavior can be maximized when the dynamic goal is set at an optimal level. Our findings can help practitioners better design the online fitness programs and the associated fitness technologies.

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    In online fitness programs, the exercise behavior of participants changes along with the dynamic goal distance and the goal-achieving status.

    Abstract

    Due to the importance of employees’ physical well-being, organizations have long been conducting wellness programs to motivate their employees to exercise. The wide use of wearable devices (e.g., smart bands and smartphones) and fitness applications (e.g., fitness mobile applications) enable organizations to shift from offline to online fitness programs where participants use physical activity records tracked by wearable devices to complete fitness tasks and challenges. To better motivate employees’ exercise behavior, online fitness programs widely offer monetary or social incentives strategies. However, little is known about the interaction effects of the two types of incentives when they are jointly offered. Besides, organizers lack knowledge of how to set an optimal fitness challenge for the incentives in online fitness programs. In this study, we obtained a rich panel dataset from a university-wide online fitness program, which includes the daily exercise records of 2578 participants during a 100-day period, to empirically investigate the joint effects of monetary and social incentives on individuals’ exercise behavior. Most interestingly, we found that there is a crowd-out effect between monetary and social incentives—the influences of social incentives (i.e., social support and social contagion) are relatively weaker when there exists an unachieved monetary goal; once the monetary goal has been achieved, the influences of social incentives become stronger. In addition, we found that participants’ exercise behavior can be maximized when the dynamic goal is set at an optimal level. Our findings can help practitioners better design the online fitness programs and the associated fitness technologies.

    • Public Summary

    • In online fitness programs, offering monetary incentives will motivate participants to do more exercise. However, participants’ exercise behavior will dramatically drop after they achieve the monetary goal.
    • When the dynamic goal is at an optimal level, participants’ daily steps will be maximized.
    • There is a crowd-out effect between the monetary and social incentives in motivating people to do more exercise. The influence of social incentives will become stronger after individuals achieve their monetary goals.

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    [1]
    Joo S Y, Lee C B, Joo N Y, et al. Feasibility and effectiveness of a motion tracking-based online fitness program for office workers. Healthcare, 2021, 9 (5): 584. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9050584
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    Gellert P, Ziegelmann J P, Warner L M, et al. Physical activity intervention in older adults: Does a participating partner make a difference? European Journal of Ageing, 2011, 8 (3): 211–219. doi: 10.1007/s10433-011-0193-5
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