Habits are activities that start as repeated actions and then become a part of a person’s life. Although many habits are benign, i.e., shopping or doing laundry on certain days, eating meals or bathing at specific times, etc. Some habits can be annoying or physically damaging; nail-biting, knuckle-cracking, etc.
Other habits can be unhealthy or destructive, especially if they rise to the level of being an addiction (smoking, using drugs), or a compulsion (i.e., hair-pulling). Habits can be changed or broken through effort and/or with the help of therapy if they are causing difficulties in everyday life.
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Mohammed Looti, PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES (2023) Habits. Retrieved from https://scales.arabpsychology.com/terms/habits/. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.31575.96163
