Relationships Among Environmental Attitudes, Environmental Efficacy, and Pro-Environmental Behaviors Across and Within 11 Countries

IF 5.2 2区 心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environment and Behavior Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI:10.1177/00139165221131002
Lindsay B. Miller, Ronald E. Rice, Abel Gustafson, Matthew H. Goldberg
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Abstract

Pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) are crucial to reducing environmental degradations, and much research has focused on two key psychological antecedents: pro-environmental attitudes and efficacy beliefs. Yet, the evidence of their direct and interactive relationships are mixed. Further, few studies investigate how these key relationships vary across different countries and contexts. Using data from a large international survey (N = 11,000) in 11 countries, we examine relationships among environmental attitudes, efficacy, and PEBs. Overall environmental attitudes are a strong predictor of PEBs, while efficacy has a small direct and a non-significant moderation effect. Within countries, both direct and moderation relationships involving efficacy are tiny. The relative dominance of environmental attitudes as a predictor raises questions about the unique importance of efficacy in explaining PEBs separate from attitudes (and covariates). The nuanced connections between these variables within individual countries highlight the importance of more diverse global environmental research.
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11个国家内外环境态度、环境效能和环保行为之间的关系
亲环境行为(PEBs)对于减少环境退化至关重要,许多研究都集中在两个关键的心理前因:亲环境态度和效能信念。然而,它们之间直接和互动关系的证据是混杂的。此外,很少有研究调查这些关键关系在不同国家和背景下的差异。利用来自11个国家的大型国际调查(N = 11,000)的数据,我们研究了环境态度、效率和peb之间的关系。整体环境态度是PEBs的重要预测因子,而效能则具有较小的直接和非显著的调节作用。在国家内部,涉及疗效的直接关系和适度关系都很小。环境态度作为预测因素的相对主导地位提出了关于解释peb与态度(和协变量)分开的功效的独特重要性的问题。各国内部这些变量之间的微妙联系凸显了更多样化的全球环境研究的重要性。
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期刊介绍: Environment & Behavior is an interdisciplinary journal designed to report rigorous experimental and theoretical work focusing on the influence of the physical environment on human behavior at the individual, group, and institutional levels.
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