Pub Date : 2025-10-29DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102839
Ágnes Buvár , Gabor Orosz , Ágnes Zsila
Convincing people to lead a more sustainable lifestyle can have a significant positive impact on our environment. Social media represents an ideal scalable platform for sustainable messages. This study investigates the efficacy of dynamic norm interventions, disseminated by social media influencers, in prompting reduced consumption of PET bottles. Drawing on established research confirming the efficacy of such interventions in fostering sustainable behavior, three studies were conducted (Nsum = 1329) to ascertain the impact of these interventions within the context of influencer communication. Findings indicated that the length of the message and the strength of parasocial relationships with the influencer were moderators of the effect of dynamic norms on the perceived persuasiveness of the message among the primary audience of the influencer. When the parasocial relationship was less intense and the message was concise, dynamic norms had a greater direct influence on the persuasiveness and a greater indirect influence on behavioral intentions such as engagement with the post. These insights extend the scope and application of dynamic norm interventions in environmental sustainability efforts on social media.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102836
N. Bennett , B. St John , M. Heisten , A.R. Carrico , K.M. Bailey
Growing wildfire risks are increasing losses and damages to wildland-urban interface households in the American West. In Colorado, the December 2021 Marshall Fire destroyed over 1000 suburban homes and became the most destructive fire in the state's history and the 10th costliest in US history. Fortunately, homeowner adaptation action can play a significant role in preventing structural damage or loss that can come from a wildfire. Yet, action is more effective when coordinated across a community, since the nature of wildfire as a hazard means that one homeowner's wildfire risk is informed not only by their own actions but also those taken by their neighbors. Across the summer and fall of 2022, we distributed a household survey and conducted focus groups in the City of Boulder, which was near but not within the burn area of the Marshall Fire. Using multilevel regression analysis, we explored the role of social and cognitive factors in motivating both the number of adopted adaptation actions and the adoption of specific actions at the household scale. Our analysis points to the role of outcome efficacy and personal responsibility as correlates of homeowner adaptation action to wildfire. Our focus group data lend nuance and insight into our model results and highlight the role of extreme weather and perceptions of community inaction as drivers of low outcome efficacy beliefs and household inaction. Our findings point to the importance of collective action for wildfire as a tool to increase outcome efficacy perceptions and drive action at the household level.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102832
Chen Leyao , Wang Yinyin , Huang Xishan , Li Xinqi , Lai Wenyu , Lin Canli , Zhai Wenhao
Environmental sustainability has become a critical global concern. However, public indifference and inaction may further accelerate the gradual loss of natural heritage. In examining the psychological mechanisms that foster pro-environmental behavior (PEB), researchers have identified awe—an emotion elicited by stimuli that transcend one's comprehension—as a significant promoter of such behavior. Furthermore, the mechanism through which awe influences PEB is both theoretically and practically valuable, and it has attracted the attention of the current study. It is possible that awe towards the natural environment enhances a sense of belonging and unity with nature. This, in turn, may lead to a more positive self-schema centered around moral traits, which can motivate individuals to act in ways that benefit the environment. Therefore, the current study aims to examine the impact of awe on PEB and the mediating roles of nature connectedness and moral identity. Given the gaps in research on adolescents' PEB and their crucial role in the conservation of natural heritage, focusing on this demographic is both timely and meaningful. To achieve our purpose, two studies were conducted. In study 1, 554 middle school students were recruited, and questionnaire surveys revealed significant positive correlations among awe, nature connectedness, moral identity, and PEB. Moreover, nature connectedness and moral identity served as mediators in the relationship between awe and PEB. In study 2, 180 middle school students were recruited, and laboratory experiments using videos to induce state awe demonstrated that induced awe enhances both moral identity and PEB, with the mediators aligning with those identified in Study 1. In summary, this study provides support for the association between awe and adolescents' PEB, as well as the mediating roles of nature connectedness and moral identity, thereby advancing the understanding of PEB. The findings provide valuable insights into strategies for enhancing adolescents' PEB.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102827
Dilara Cavdar , Beyza Tepe , S. Adil Saribay , Onurcan Yilmaz
This study investigates the relationship between moral framing, political orientation, and pro-environmental attitudes, replicating and extending Feinberg and Willer (2013) in a non-Western context. Using a Turkish-speaking sample (N = 699), we examined the effectiveness of care and sanctity-framed messages and the moderating role of actively open-minded thinking (AOT). Our findings partially replicated the original study. Sanctity framing increased pro-environmental attitudes among conservatives, while care framing had no significant effect. Political conservatism was negatively associated with pro-environmental attitudes, confirming prior findings. Exploratory analyses revealed that AOT moderated the effects of sanctity framing on environmental attitudes, with individuals low or moderate in AOT being more responsive. Both care and sanctity frames increased environmental donation, addressing the intention-behavior gap. However, cultural nuances, such as the collectivist orientation of the sample, may have influenced the care frame's ineffectiveness. The study highlights the importance of cultural context in moral framing research and underscores the need for context-specific climate communication strategies.
{"title":"Moral framing effects on environmental attitudes: A conceptual replication and extension of Feinberg and Willer (2013)","authors":"Dilara Cavdar , Beyza Tepe , S. Adil Saribay , Onurcan Yilmaz","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102827","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102827","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the relationship between moral framing, political orientation, and pro-environmental attitudes, replicating and extending Feinberg and Willer (2013) in a non-Western context. Using a Turkish-speaking sample (N = 699), we examined the effectiveness of care and sanctity-framed messages and the moderating role of actively open-minded thinking (AOT). Our findings partially replicated the original study. Sanctity framing increased pro-environmental attitudes among conservatives, while care framing had no significant effect. Political conservatism was negatively associated with pro-environmental attitudes, confirming prior findings. Exploratory analyses revealed that AOT moderated the effects of sanctity framing on environmental attitudes, with individuals low or moderate in AOT being more responsive. Both care and sanctity frames increased environmental donation, addressing the intention-behavior gap. However, cultural nuances, such as the collectivist orientation of the sample, may have influenced the care frame's ineffectiveness. The study highlights the importance of cultural context in moral framing research and underscores the need for context-specific climate communication strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48439,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Psychology","volume":"108 ","pages":"Article 102827"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145474739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102837
Ying Yang , Yuqing Jin, Yuxin Wang, Chenxia Wu
Growing research has examined the association between place attachment and subjective well-being. Nevertheless, this relationship remains insufficiently understood due to methodological limitations and a lack of exploration into the underlying mechanisms. Drawing on the Person-Process-Place framework and Self-Determination Theory, the present research program examined whether place attachment serves a compensatory role when adolescents face typical interpersonal risk (i.e., peer rejection), and enhances subjective well-being by fulfilling basic psychological needs. We conducted three studies with a large sample of Chinese adolescents (total N = 2823). Study 1 preliminarily found a positive correlation between place attachment and subjective well-being using a cross-sectional design. Study 2, employing a three-wave longitudinal design, revealed that basic psychological needs satisfaction mediated this relationship, but only for adolescents who experienced high levels of peer rejection. Study 3 replicated the moderated mediation effect by experimentally manipulating place attachment. The present research is among the first to systematically examine the interaction between place attachment and interpersonal attachment, highlighting that place attachment can buffer against negative outcomes and promote psychological benefits when adolescents face interpersonal risks. These findings also underscored the importance of fostering positive person-place bonds in promoting adolescent psychological development.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-28DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102828
Veera Nieminen , Timo Partonen , Jaana I. Halonen , Katriina Hyvönen , Timo Lanki , Auriba Raza , Marianna Virtanen
We examined how climate worry, societal and individual efficacy-based climate hope (as a meaning-focused coping strategy), and pro-environmental behavior (PEB; as a problem-focused coping strategy) are related to mental health, namely, depressive and anxiety symptoms. We also studied whether efficacy-based climate hope or PEB (as a problem-focused coping strategy) moderate the association between climate worry and mental health problems. Furthermore, we examined whether PEB, when combined with efficacy-based climate hope, served as a protective factor for mental health. We investigated these associations among Finnish adults (N = 5701) from the ten largest cities in Finland. High levels of climate worry were associated with greater likelihood of experiencing more severe depressive (odds ratio (OR) 1.39, 95 % confidence interval (CI) 1.13–1.69) and anxiety (OR 1.91, 95 % CI 1.52–2.40) symptoms than low levels of climate worry. Low levels of societal efficacy-based hope were associated with greater likelihood of experiencing more severe depressive (OR 1.26, 95 % CI 1.04–1.69) and anxiety (OR 1.26, 95 % CI 1.02–1.58) symptoms than high levels of societal efficacy-based climate hope. Neither efficacy-based climate hope nor PEB moderated the association between climate worry and mental health. However, individual efficacy-based climate hope moderated the association between PEB and both mental health outcomes. Among those who showed more engagement in PEB, lower levels of individual efficacy-based hope were associated with greater odds of experiencing depressive and anxiety symptoms, in comparison to those who showed more PEB and had higher levels of hope. Although climate worry was related to mental health symptoms in our study, we suggest that the focus of psychological adaptation to climate crisis should not be on eliminating worry, but on finding a way to channel it. Based on our findings, it is possible that a coping strategy integrating behavioral engagement with climate hope may support planetary health by mitigating mental health impacts of climate crisis while simultaneously strengthening commitment to climate change mitigation.
我们研究了气候担忧、基于社会和个人效能的气候希望（作为一种以意义为中心的应对策略）和亲环境行为（PEB；作为一种以问题为中心的应对策略）与心理健康（即抑郁和焦虑症状）的关系。我们还研究了基于疗效的气候希望或PEB（作为一种以问题为中心的应对策略）是否调节了气候担忧与心理健康问题之间的关联。此外，我们研究了当PEB与基于疗效的气候希望结合时，是否作为心理健康的保护因素。我们在芬兰10个最大城市的芬兰成年人（N = 5701）中调查了这些关联。与低水平的气候担忧相比，高水平的气候担忧更有可能经历更严重的抑郁（比值比（OR） 1.39, 95%置信区间（CI） 1.13-1.69）和焦虑（OR 1.91, 95% CI 1.52-2.40）症状。低水平的基于社会效能的希望与高水平的基于社会效能的气候希望相比，更有可能经历更严重的抑郁（OR 1.26, 95% CI 1.04-1.69）和焦虑（OR 1.26, 95% CI 1.02-1.58）症状。以疗效为基础的气候希望和PEB都没有调节气候担忧与心理健康之间的关联。然而，以个人效能为基础的气候希望调节了PEB与两种心理健康结果之间的关联。与那些表现出更多的PEB和更高水平的希望的人相比，那些表现出更多的PEB的人，更低水平的基于个人疗效的希望与经历抑郁和焦虑症状的可能性更大相关。虽然气候担忧在我们的研究中与心理健康症状有关，但我们建议，心理适应气候危机的重点不应该放在消除担忧上，而应该放在找到一种渠道上。根据我们的研究结果，将行为参与与气候希望相结合的应对策略可能会通过减轻气候危机对心理健康的影响，同时加强对减缓气候变化的承诺，来支持地球健康。
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Pub Date : 2025-10-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102831
Christian Vater , Panos Mavros , Jiayan Zhao , Cécile Abati , Christoph Hölscher
Navigation in complex multi-level buildings like shopping malls can be a challenging wayfinding task, especially if the individual is unfamiliar with the building. People need to orient themselves, find reliable landmarks, and develop a mental representation of the environment. For this, different cognitive processes, as well as efficient visual perception, are key. Previous research has found links between visual perception and the quality of mental representation. Research on complex multilevel buildings, however, is missing. To investigate the interaction of visual perception and spatial cognition in such complex buildings, we asked participants (n = 68) to navigate in virtual reality to 10 different shops across four floors of a complex building, revisit 4 of them afterward, and then create a 3D sketchmap of the navigated building. We investigated how the visibility of the goals, being on a wide versus a narrow corridor, would impact wayfinding performance. We measured cognitive load, navigational performance in the search and navigation tasks, and 3D sketchmap quality. We show that wayfinding performance and visual search strategies depend on the type of open spaces in the complex building and that navigation strategies change with increasing spatial knowledge. Our results indicate that there are individual differences in the ability to recognize the visited shops and sketch them in a 3D VR environment. Our results suggest that shops that are visible through large atrium spaces can be found more efficiently when visiting complex buildings for the first time. Once the mental representation of the building has been acquired, navigation performance is even better for shops located on hidden corridors. Our findings highlight the dynamics in creating a mental representation of complex multilevel buildings, how this representation impacts visual search and navigation, and that 3D sketching is a powerful tool for investigating spatial knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102812
Saara H. Taavila, Bastiaan T. Rutjens , Nils B. Jostmann
Climate change is often deemed a “wicked problem” due to complex interactions between many variables and the resulting uncertainty for decision-making. While understanding complexity is useful for addressing climate change, complexity can also present a barrier to action. But how can individual perceptions of complexity in sustainability be operationalized, and how are these perceptions related to support for climate policy and sustainable behavioral intentions? Drawing on a theoretical framework of complex decision-making, we constructed and validated a scale to measure the perceived complexity of sustainability (PCS) across three studies in the UK (total N = 1176). Exploratory (Studies 1 and 2) and confirmatory (Study 3) factor analyses supported a three-factor scale structure, comprising effectiveness uncertainty, trade-offs between different environmental actions, and conflicts between sustainability and other goals. We found the 12-item PCS scale to be a reliable and valid measure that correlates positively with climate change skepticism and negatively with support for climate policy and sustainable behavioral intentions. Understanding the perceived complexity of sustainability can help in developing guidelines for scientists and governments to communicate about climate change responses to the public.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102835
Tang T. Luu , Annegret H. Thieken , Tran Thi Tuyen , Vo Thi Vinh , Philip Bubeck
Floods pose a significant risk to societies, especially in Asia. Individual flood-adaptive behaviour can successfully reduce flood impacts. The literature suggests that perceived social norms influence adaptive behaviour, but how they do so currently needs to be better understood. Perceived social norms refer to an individual's beliefs around (1) society's approval of a behavior (injunctive norms), (2) what others do (descriptive norms), and (3) what important others expect the individual to do (subjective norms). This paper explores the role of social norms in adaptive behaviour alongside more commonly researched factors, such as threat and coping appraisals as described in Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), using structured face-to-face interviews with 351 randomly selected respondents from Vietnam. To better understand the role of social norms, we compare two theoretical models based on PMT, with and without the inclusion of social norms. Next, we apply a data-driven modelling approach in which covariates of the logistic regression model are systematically selected based on significance level and model performance. Results show that social norms significantly influence the implementation of flood-adaptative measures. However, the influential norms appear to be measure-specific: descriptive norms influence the preparation of emergency devices, while subjective norms influence livelihood adaptations. Different types of social norms and context-specific factors should thus be considered in well-established behavioural theories and risk policies aimed at enhancing flood-adaptive behaviour.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102833
Charlie Pittaway , Winnifred Louis , Kelly Fielding
Individual orientations to the present and the future are thought to be important predictors of behaviours that involve temporal dilemmas, such as climate change mitigation. However, past research has only explored these relationships cross-sectionally, with all variables measured at the same time. The present study is the first to test the associations of temporal orientations to subsequent climate action, to determine their effects over time. Using two waves of data with an Australian community sample (N = 268), we test the associations between consideration of future and immediate consequences and self-reported conventional private-sphere, conventional public-sphere, and radical public-sphere climate action taken over the subsequent one year. Results reveal that higher consideration of future consequences at Time 1 is associated with more self-reported climate action at Time 2 via access to more environmental cognitive alternatives, higher eco-anxiety, and stronger behavioural intentions at Time 1. Higher consideration of immediate consequences is associated with more radical public-sphere action via stronger behavioural intentions and related to conventional private- and public-sphere climate actions via both negative and positive indirect pathways.
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