The reason for choosing the experimental subjects:
My stakeholders are divided into two groups: students aged 20 to 24 and young workers aged 24 to 28. This intervention will mainly target the working group. As workers’ daily schedules are usually highly arranged, this intervention aims to understand young employees’ perception of daytime time compression and their awareness of proactively planning their time through sign-in records in the morning, at noon, and in the evening. Avoid taking up their daily working time and carry out intervention more efficiently.
Theoretical basis：
Deci, Edward L., and Ryan, Richard M. (2000). “Self-Determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation, Social Development, and Well-Being.” American Psychologist, 55(1), 68–78.
Self-determination theory holds that an individual’s intrinsic motivation depends on three core psychological needs: autonomy (the willingness to control one’s own behavior), competence (the ability to perceive oneself as effectively completing tasks), and relationality (the need to establish meaningful connections with others). When these three needs are met, individuals are more motivated to continuously engage in the target behavior and enjoy better physical and mental health. If external control suppresses an individual’s freedom of choice or sense of achievement, motivation will decline significantly. This theory is widely applied in education, health behavior change and organizational management.
Application to Daily Rhythm Intervention:
Time perception and behavioral control sense are important variables influencing the behaviors of “procrastination” and “staying up late”. When individuals lack a sense of control during the day, they often make up for it at night. The rhythm record card helps individuals regain a sense of time control by providing a recordable understanding of life rhythms, thereby reducing the passivity and compensatory nature of retaliatory staying up late.
Daily Rhythm Perception Record Card Analysis Report
Project objective: Through three-stage rhythmic check-in records (morning, afternoon, and evening), enhance young workers’ perception of the compression of daytime and their awareness of proactively planning their own time, helping them rebuild their sense of rhythm and sovereignty in life, thereby reducing the impulse for Revenge Bedtime Procrastination.
Morning 9:00
-All participants indicated that they “had control over the pace of the task.”
-The subjective states are mostly: fatigue, anxiety, confusion, and a reluctance to face the world.
Analysis:
Even if there is rhythm control, the spirit and emotions remain unsatisfied——a sense of rhythm control ≠ a sense of psychological control.
Afternoon 2:00
-All participants were given 15 minutes of free time (such as playing games, chatting, snacking, taking a walk, or taking a nap).
-Most of the feedback was: “Mental recovery”, “sense of satisfaction”, “improved efficiency”.
Evening 10:30
-Each participant has a moment of freedom in the evening (/ reading/playing/chatting).
-The urge to stay up late is still widespread: “It has become a habit”, “I have no time to do my own things during the day”, “I dare to stay up late only when I’m not busy tomorrow”.
Analysis:
-Staying up late is not a catch-up sleep but a compensation.
-Young people rely more on the night to create psychological compensation under the passive rhythm.
-Even with free time during the day, an equivalent ” sense of control” still cannot be generated.
Conclusion：
Rhythm control: Task controllability ≠ mental relaxation—— a sense of control is more like a sense of duty.
Nighttime impulse: Staying up late has become an emotionally dependent pattern – more emotional support alternatives may be needed.
How to get in touch with stakeholders and participate：
1.Contact medium——WeChat
Since most of the participants are in China and I am in the UK, I am unable to conduct one-on-one offline interviews. So all the interviews and the signing of the informed consent forms were conducted online via wechat.
After each Participants document, I attached screenshots of the interview time and made key points of the interview content.And it is accompanied by the signatures of each participant’s informed consent form.
2. Participation records of intervention experiments
This intervention focused on the form of recording. Each participant had a one-on-one interview with me after recording their daily rhythm.The interview content focuses on the participants’ daily plans and personal feelings after the experiment to ensure the authenticity of their feedback on this intervention.
The following are the forms filled out by each participant and their participation records：
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