Pub Date : 2017-04-07DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2017.1311073
Mikel Subiza-Pérez, Laura Vozmediano, César San Juan
Abstract Over the past few decades, a significant volume of research has been dedicated to the study of psychological restoration within and outside the field of Environmental Psychology. Following a period during which this research focused on gathering evidence in favour of the restorative potential of nature, the notion of restoration in urban settings is beginning to emerge as a new area of interest, with implications for the improvement of urban quality of life. This article presents an adaptation of two scales to be used in specific urban settings (squares, streets or boulevards), which could be valuable to the scientific community to this end: the Restoration Outcome Scale and the Attachment and Identification Scale. An online survey was conducted with 170 subjects. The adapted versions of these instruments obtained adequate reliability indices, and the results also indicate that these scales show convergent validity.
{"title":"Restoration in urban settings: pilot adaptation and psychometric properties of two psychological restoration and place bonding scales / Restauración en contextos urbanos: adaptación piloto y propiedades psicométricas de dos escalas de restauración psicológica y vinculación con el espacio","authors":"Mikel Subiza-Pérez, Laura Vozmediano, César San Juan","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2017.1311073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2017.1311073","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Over the past few decades, a significant volume of research has been dedicated to the study of psychological restoration within and outside the field of Environmental Psychology. Following a period during which this research focused on gathering evidence in favour of the restorative potential of nature, the notion of restoration in urban settings is beginning to emerge as a new area of interest, with implications for the improvement of urban quality of life. This article presents an adaptation of two scales to be used in specific urban settings (squares, streets or boulevards), which could be valuable to the scientific community to this end: the Restoration Outcome Scale and the Attachment and Identification Scale. An online survey was conducted with 170 subjects. The adapted versions of these instruments obtained adequate reliability indices, and the results also indicate that these scales show convergent validity.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"56 1","pages":"234 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2017-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89560713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Parents’ actions as either as promoters or as restrictors of affordances depend upon their own perception of the environment in which they identify the affordances that are possible for children to access or not. From this theoretical standpoint, the present study aimed to describe parents’ perception of nature as a place that offers affordances that children may access. In a public park in Florianópolis (Brazil), 105 parents were interviewed face-to-face, guided by open- and closed-ended questions about 26 affordances. The closed-ended questions corresponded to affordances perceived as possible and not possible for children to access in nature. The open-ended questions were about the places in nature where it would be possible for children to access the affordances. The results showed that parents evoked resources as trees, grass and sand, and places such as a lagoon, in a variety of affordances that can be accessed by children. Such results corroborate other studies that have identified the use of nature in children’s play.
{"title":"Parents’ perceptions of affordances for children in nature / La percepción que tienen los padres de las oportunidades para los niños en la naturaleza","authors":"Patrícia-Maria Schubert-Peres, Luana dos-Santos-Raymundo, Maíra Longhinotti-Felippe, Ariane Kuhnen","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2017.1291185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2017.1291185","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Parents’ actions as either as promoters or as restrictors of affordances depend upon their own perception of the environment in which they identify the affordances that are possible for children to access or not. From this theoretical standpoint, the present study aimed to describe parents’ perception of nature as a place that offers affordances that children may access. In a public park in Florianópolis (Brazil), 105 parents were interviewed face-to-face, guided by open- and closed-ended questions about 26 affordances. The closed-ended questions corresponded to affordances perceived as possible and not possible for children to access in nature. The open-ended questions were about the places in nature where it would be possible for children to access the affordances. The results showed that parents evoked resources as trees, grass and sand, and places such as a lagoon, in a variety of affordances that can be accessed by children. Such results corroborate other studies that have identified the use of nature in children’s play.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"63 1","pages":"205 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2017-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88896029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2016.1267135
Marcela Acuña-Rivera, Susana Alves Okan, J. D. Groot, Daniel Ferreira, Ana Loureiro
Marcela Acuña-Rivera (University of Surrey) Susana Alves (Okan Üniversitesi) María Amérigo (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) Judith de Groot (Bath University) Daniel Ferreira (Karolinska Institutet) Blanca S. Fraijo-Sing (Universidad de Sonora) Martha Frias-Armenta (Universidad de Sonora) Carmen Hernández (Universidad de La Laguna) Yannick Joye (University of Groningen) Ana Loureiro (Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias) Elizabeth Marcheschi (Lund University) Pilar Moreno (Universidad de Málaga) Gabriel Muiños (Universidad de La Laguna) Annika Nordlund (Umeå University) Pablo Olivos (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) Wouter Poortinga (Cardiff University) Eleanor Ratcliffe (University of Tampere) Ernesto Suárez (Universidad de La Laguna) César Octavio Tapia (Universidad de Sonora) Sergi Valera (Universitat de Barcelona) Tomeu Vidal (Universitat de Barcelona) Dimitrios Xenias (Cardiff University) Psyecology: Revista Bilingüe de Psicología Ambiental / Bilingual Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2017 Vol. 8, No. 1, 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2016.1267135
Marcela Acuña-Rivera(萨里大学)苏珊娜·阿尔维斯(Okan maria AmérigoÜniversitesi)(卡斯蒂利亚)大学Daniel Ferreira (Judith公海(浴University)授予Institutet白色)s . Fraijo-Sing(索诺拉大学)玛莎Frias-Armenta(索诺拉大学)Carmen hernandez(湖)大学Yannick Joye Ana Loureiro(大学(University of Groningen)人文和科技Moreno)伊丽莎白Marcheschi (Lund大学)支柱大学(大学)Gabriel Muiños(马拉加)Annika泻湖Nordlund美欧åUniversity)保罗橄榄(Wouter Poortinga(卡斯蒂利亚)卡迪夫大学)埃莉诺拉特克利夫大学(University of坦佩雷suarez)埃内斯托(湖)凯撒屋大维郭(索诺拉大学)Sergi Valera(的巴塞罗那巴塞罗那Tomeu维达(大学)Dimitrios Xenias(卡迪夫大学)Psyecology:《环境心理学双语杂志》，2017年第8卷第1期，148期，http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2016.1267135
{"title":"Reviewers for 2016 / Evaluadores del año 2016","authors":"Marcela Acuña-Rivera, Susana Alves Okan, J. D. Groot, Daniel Ferreira, Ana Loureiro","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2016.1267135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2016.1267135","url":null,"abstract":"Marcela Acuña-Rivera (University of Surrey) Susana Alves (Okan Üniversitesi) María Amérigo (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) Judith de Groot (Bath University) Daniel Ferreira (Karolinska Institutet) Blanca S. Fraijo-Sing (Universidad de Sonora) Martha Frias-Armenta (Universidad de Sonora) Carmen Hernández (Universidad de La Laguna) Yannick Joye (University of Groningen) Ana Loureiro (Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias) Elizabeth Marcheschi (Lund University) Pilar Moreno (Universidad de Málaga) Gabriel Muiños (Universidad de La Laguna) Annika Nordlund (Umeå University) Pablo Olivos (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) Wouter Poortinga (Cardiff University) Eleanor Ratcliffe (University of Tampere) Ernesto Suárez (Universidad de La Laguna) César Octavio Tapia (Universidad de Sonora) Sergi Valera (Universitat de Barcelona) Tomeu Vidal (Universitat de Barcelona) Dimitrios Xenias (Cardiff University) Psyecology: Revista Bilingüe de Psicología Ambiental / Bilingual Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2017 Vol. 8, No. 1, 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2016.1267135","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"115 1","pages":"148 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79379847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2016.1267136
M. Richardson, D. Sheffield
Abstract Connecting people more fully with nature is emerging as a societal issue owing to the state of nature, links to pro-environmental behaviour and benefits to wellbeing. Simple, low-cost interventions that deliver sustained increases in nature connectedness would be valuable. Participants (n = 50) noted three good things in nature each day for five days and a control group noted three factual things (n = 42). The intervention group showed sustained and significant increases in nature connectedness compared to the control group. Increases in nature connectedness were associated with psychological health improvement in the intervention group. Noting the good things in nature each day can deliver sustained increases in people’s connection with nature.
{"title":"Three good things in nature: noticing nearby nature brings sustained increases in connection with nature / Tres cosas buenas de la naturaleza: prestar atención a la naturaleza cercana produce incrementos prolongados en conexión con la naturaleza","authors":"M. Richardson, D. Sheffield","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2016.1267136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2016.1267136","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Connecting people more fully with nature is emerging as a societal issue owing to the state of nature, links to pro-environmental behaviour and benefits to wellbeing. Simple, low-cost interventions that deliver sustained increases in nature connectedness would be valuable. Participants (n = 50) noted three good things in nature each day for five days and a control group noted three factual things (n = 42). The intervention group showed sustained and significant increases in nature connectedness compared to the control group. Increases in nature connectedness were associated with psychological health improvement in the intervention group. Noting the good things in nature each day can deliver sustained increases in people’s connection with nature.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"73 1","pages":"1 - 32"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80557090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2016.1267134
Ana M. Martín, B. Hernández, I. Alonso
Abstract Psychological research into illegal anti-environmental behaviour is scarce because this type of behaviour is difficult to analyse and conceptualize. Motivational variables and, in particular, regulation mechanisms can help to explain this type of environmentally significant behaviour. The aim of this research is to analyse the relationship between pro-environmental motives and illegal anti-environmental behaviour. A total of 311 university students completed a questionnaire that included a Spanish translation of the Motivation Toward the Environment Scale, questions about illegal anti-environmental behaviour and regulation to respect environmental laws. The results indicate that the factor structure of the scale, obtained by means of confirmatory factor analysis, is the same as the one proposed by its authors. Furthermore, we ascertained that pro-environmental motives predict pro-environmental and also illegal anti-environmental behaviour, but that the percentage of explained variance is higher when using regulation to respect environmental laws.
{"title":"Pro-environmental motivation and regulation to respect environmental laws as predictors of illegal anti-environmental behaviour / La motivación pro-ambiental y la motivación para respetar las leyes medioambientales como predictoras de la conducta anti-ecológica ilegal","authors":"Ana M. Martín, B. Hernández, I. Alonso","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2016.1267134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2016.1267134","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Psychological research into illegal anti-environmental behaviour is scarce because this type of behaviour is difficult to analyse and conceptualize. Motivational variables and, in particular, regulation mechanisms can help to explain this type of environmentally significant behaviour. The aim of this research is to analyse the relationship between pro-environmental motives and illegal anti-environmental behaviour. A total of 311 university students completed a questionnaire that included a Spanish translation of the Motivation Toward the Environment Scale, questions about illegal anti-environmental behaviour and regulation to respect environmental laws. The results indicate that the factor structure of the scale, obtained by means of confirmatory factor analysis, is the same as the one proposed by its authors. Furthermore, we ascertained that pro-environmental motives predict pro-environmental and also illegal anti-environmental behaviour, but that the percentage of explained variance is higher when using regulation to respect environmental laws.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"82 1","pages":"33 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85599683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2016.1267854
Isabel Abreu-Santos, L. Vasconcelos, Ivania M. O. Pires
Abstract Contemporary society faces complex, uncertain and global risks. The extensive scientific literature is not consensual about the concept of risk or the relevance of its perception by the populations, their level of preparedness or the ways they deal with risk and disaster situations. Assuming that better prepared societies face risk situations more efficiently, two case studies were submitted to research and comparison — L’Aquila earthquake and Japan’s triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami and nuclear). Results point to a general inability to manage risk in unforeseen situations. Risk communication has shown to be inadequate, with major flaws, transmitting a false sense of safety. The governance model exposed the failure of the decision structures in dealing with the events, thus contributing to the creation of distrust and insecurity in the communities smitten by calamity. Past experiences have created adequate behaviours in L’Aquila, but gave rise to false assumptions in Japan, jeopardizing human lives. This paper intends to reflect and draw lessons learned in these experiences, which may serve as a baseline and as support for future guidelines.
{"title":"Learning from risk: lessons from L’Aquila and Japan / Aprender del riesgo: lecciones de L’Aquila y Japón","authors":"Isabel Abreu-Santos, L. Vasconcelos, Ivania M. O. Pires","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2016.1267854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2016.1267854","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Contemporary society faces complex, uncertain and global risks. The extensive scientific literature is not consensual about the concept of risk or the relevance of its perception by the populations, their level of preparedness or the ways they deal with risk and disaster situations. Assuming that better prepared societies face risk situations more efficiently, two case studies were submitted to research and comparison — L’Aquila earthquake and Japan’s triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami and nuclear). Results point to a general inability to manage risk in unforeseen situations. Risk communication has shown to be inadequate, with major flaws, transmitting a false sense of safety. The governance model exposed the failure of the decision structures in dealing with the events, thus contributing to the creation of distrust and insecurity in the communities smitten by calamity. Past experiences have created adequate behaviours in L’Aquila, but gave rise to false assumptions in Japan, jeopardizing human lives. This paper intends to reflect and draw lessons learned in these experiences, which may serve as a baseline and as support for future guidelines.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"67 1","pages":"107 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84007196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2016.1272875
Emilio Moyano-Díaz, Gonzalo Palomo‐Vélez, Pablo Olivos, Jorge Sepúlveda-Fuentes
Abstract This article compares attitudes and pro-environmental behaviour, liberal economic thinking, happiness and favourability to the construction of nuclear power plants in two physical and cultural contrasting Chilean territories — one of them insular, predominantly natural or rural (Easter Island) and the other continental, eminently urban (Talca). It examines 145 adult participants (57.2% continental) of both sexes (66.2% women), who answered the NEP-R on environmental attitudes, the Ecological Behaviour Scale (EBS), the Economic Liberalism Scale (ECOL), the Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS) and a question on the agreement of the construction of nuclear power plants. Insular participants report greener behaviour and happiness than their continental peers, while the latter ones tend to show more positive attitudes towards the environment and more liberal economic thought. In both territories, adults over 30 years old report more ecological behaviours than youth, and continental adults have a more pronounced liberal economic thinking than their insular peers, but this difference vanishes among young people. The results are discussed regarding the literature on the effect of culture on thinking, attitudes and behaviour.
{"title":"Natural and urban environments determining environmental beliefs and behaviours, economic thought and happiness / Ambientes naturales y urbanos determinan creencias y comportamientos ambientales, el pensamiento económico y la felicidad","authors":"Emilio Moyano-Díaz, Gonzalo Palomo‐Vélez, Pablo Olivos, Jorge Sepúlveda-Fuentes","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2016.1272875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2016.1272875","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article compares attitudes and pro-environmental behaviour, liberal economic thinking, happiness and favourability to the construction of nuclear power plants in two physical and cultural contrasting Chilean territories — one of them insular, predominantly natural or rural (Easter Island) and the other continental, eminently urban (Talca). It examines 145 adult participants (57.2% continental) of both sexes (66.2% women), who answered the NEP-R on environmental attitudes, the Ecological Behaviour Scale (EBS), the Economic Liberalism Scale (ECOL), the Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS) and a question on the agreement of the construction of nuclear power plants. Insular participants report greener behaviour and happiness than their continental peers, while the latter ones tend to show more positive attitudes towards the environment and more liberal economic thought. In both territories, adults over 30 years old report more ecological behaviours than youth, and continental adults have a more pronounced liberal economic thinking than their insular peers, but this difference vanishes among young people. The results are discussed regarding the literature on the effect of culture on thinking, attitudes and behaviour.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"84 1","pages":"106 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80901103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2016.1251105
E. van der Werff, G. Perlaviciute, Gabriel Muiños
Abstract The aim of this special issue is to bring the work of early-career researchers in environmental psychology to the spotlight. These young researchers come from different countries and cultures, have their own theoretical approaches and employ different research methods to increase knowledge on the relationships between humans and their environments. The papers included in this special issue address key questions for environmental psychology, such as which important factors influence (pro-environmental) behaviour and under which conditions, how these key factors can be addressed in interventions aimed at increasing environmental quality and individual well-being, and under which conditions such interventions are effective or may even backfire. The selected papers represent a variety of (new) methods to address these questions. By presenting this work of early-career researchers, this special issue is expected to inspire and encourage future innovative and diverse contributions to the field of environmental psychology.
{"title":"Current developments in environmental psychology: topics and researchers / Desarrollos actuales en psicología ambiental: temas e investigadores","authors":"E. van der Werff, G. Perlaviciute, Gabriel Muiños","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2016.1251105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2016.1251105","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The aim of this special issue is to bring the work of early-career researchers in environmental psychology to the spotlight. These young researchers come from different countries and cultures, have their own theoretical approaches and employ different research methods to increase knowledge on the relationships between humans and their environments. The papers included in this special issue address key questions for environmental psychology, such as which important factors influence (pro-environmental) behaviour and under which conditions, how these key factors can be addressed in interventions aimed at increasing environmental quality and individual well-being, and under which conditions such interventions are effective or may even backfire. The selected papers represent a variety of (new) methods to address these questions. By presenting this work of early-career researchers, this special issue is expected to inspire and encourage future innovative and diverse contributions to the field of environmental psychology.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"29 1","pages":"229 - 235"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77107190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2016.1238069
C. C. Andrade, A. Devlin
Abstract Perceived control is a desirable quality in the healthcare environment to increase patients’ well-being. However, recent research has demonstrated that perceived control did not predict stress. Based on the hypothesis that control does not always lead to better adjustment, and that it may depend on whether people want to have control, the aim of the current research was to examine the moderating role of individual differences in terms of desire for control. In an experiment, 150 participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. First we measured desirability of control; next we presented a scenario of a hypothetical hospitalization. Perceived control was manipulated by the stated presence or absence of an integrated remote device that allows adjustment of environmental features in the room. Results showed that having control over the room positively predicts stress reduction among people with high desirability for control, whereas among people with low desirability for control this relationship was not significant.
{"title":"Who wants control in the hospital room? Environmental control, desirability of control and stress / ¿Quién desea control en la habitación del hospital? Control ambiental, deseo de control y estrés","authors":"C. C. Andrade, A. Devlin","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2016.1238069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2016.1238069","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Perceived control is a desirable quality in the healthcare environment to increase patients’ well-being. However, recent research has demonstrated that perceived control did not predict stress. Based on the hypothesis that control does not always lead to better adjustment, and that it may depend on whether people want to have control, the aim of the current research was to examine the moderating role of individual differences in terms of desire for control. In an experiment, 150 participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. First we measured desirability of control; next we presented a scenario of a hypothetical hospitalization. Perceived control was manipulated by the stated presence or absence of an integrated remote device that allows adjustment of environmental features in the room. Results showed that having control over the room positively predicts stress reduction among people with high desirability for control, whereas among people with low desirability for control this relationship was not significant.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"05 1","pages":"236 - 261"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85973285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2016.1238588
Adriana Jakovcevic, Cecilia Reyna
Abstract In Argentina, energy consumption is characterized by a high dependence on fossil fuels and a low cost for final consumers. Therefore, to encourage energy efficiency it is important to know which non-financial factors influence energy use. Numerous evidences suggest that the Value-Belief-Norm model (VBN) is an adequate framework to understand this behaviour. However, few studies tested VBN to predict energy efficiency behaviour and even fewer did so in Latin America. Our aim was to test whether a VBN model was successful for predicting household energy efficiency behaviours among Argentinian citizens (n = 275). Results showed that the VBN model indeed explained self-reported energy efficiency. Importantly, a VBN model version assessed by means of a path analysis showed a good fit to the data. Biospheric values and personal norms were particularly strong predictors of household energy efficiency. These results indicate that personal norms, activated by values, are able to predict energy efficiency actions in an Argentinean sample. These evidences suggest that moral considerations should be promoted in order to increase energy efficiency actions in Argentina.
{"title":"Explaining energy efficiency behaviours among Argentinean citizens through the VBN model / Explicación de los comportamientos de eficiencia energética entre ciudadanos argentinos a través del modelo VCN","authors":"Adriana Jakovcevic, Cecilia Reyna","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2016.1238588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2016.1238588","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In Argentina, energy consumption is characterized by a high dependence on fossil fuels and a low cost for final consumers. Therefore, to encourage energy efficiency it is important to know which non-financial factors influence energy use. Numerous evidences suggest that the Value-Belief-Norm model (VBN) is an adequate framework to understand this behaviour. However, few studies tested VBN to predict energy efficiency behaviour and even fewer did so in Latin America. Our aim was to test whether a VBN model was successful for predicting household energy efficiency behaviours among Argentinian citizens (n = 275). Results showed that the VBN model indeed explained self-reported energy efficiency. Importantly, a VBN model version assessed by means of a path analysis showed a good fit to the data. Biospheric values and personal norms were particularly strong predictors of household energy efficiency. These results indicate that personal norms, activated by values, are able to predict energy efficiency actions in an Argentinean sample. These evidences suggest that moral considerations should be promoted in order to increase energy efficiency actions in Argentina.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"1 1","pages":"282 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73995220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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