Pub Date : 2018-02-19DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2018.1432527
M. Amérigo, J. A. García, Soledad López-Santiago
Abstract This paper analyses the effects of inducing emotions on thought-action repertoires related to nature following the Broaden-and-Build Theory (BBT). Based on a pilot study conducted with 279 university students, this study transculturally validated five videos that generated two positive, one neutral and two negative emotions. The main study, conducted with 300 Spanish university students, utilized experimental manipulation to ascertain whether videos that induced positive emotions increased the number of thought-action repertoires in comparison with the video that induced a neutral emotion. In the case of the negative videos, a significant discrepancy was observed in the number of repertoires generated depending on the type of emotion induced, with sadness generating a greater number than disgust. Furthermore, attitudes pertaining to affective bonds with nature increased thought-action repertoires, regardless of the emotion induced. The paper discusses the need to examine in greater depth the effect of different negative emotions on the generation of environmental arguments.
{"title":"The effects of emotions on the generation of environmental arguments / Efectos de las emociones en la generación de argumentos sobre el medio ambiente natural","authors":"M. Amérigo, J. A. García, Soledad López-Santiago","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2018.1432527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2018.1432527","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper analyses the effects of inducing emotions on thought-action repertoires related to nature following the Broaden-and-Build Theory (BBT). Based on a pilot study conducted with 279 university students, this study transculturally validated five videos that generated two positive, one neutral and two negative emotions. The main study, conducted with 300 Spanish university students, utilized experimental manipulation to ascertain whether videos that induced positive emotions increased the number of thought-action repertoires in comparison with the video that induced a neutral emotion. In the case of the negative videos, a significant discrepancy was observed in the number of repertoires generated depending on the type of emotion induced, with sadness generating a greater number than disgust. Furthermore, attitudes pertaining to affective bonds with nature increased thought-action repertoires, regardless of the emotion induced. The paper discusses the need to examine in greater depth the effect of different negative emotions on the generation of environmental arguments.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"39 1","pages":"204 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89221669","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 : 2018-01-30DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2018.1433080
R. Diniz, D. Morais, J. Pinheiro
Abstract In order to understand what leads people to commit to both practices of environmental care and simple living, this work investigates how significant life experiences influence people who develop a pro-ecological commitment (PEC), focusing on experiences related to either religion or spirituality. Twenty-nine people socially perceived (and referred) as having PEC (17 males, aged between 23 and 79) participated in individual semi-structured interviews and described experiences that worked as a source of influence for their own commitment. In addition to what the literature proposes on the relation between spirituality and environmental care, the accounts highlighted the distinction made between religion and spirituality; the contact with nature mediated by religious practices; associations of the idea of the sacred (divine) with the environment; and the importance of these experiences as contexts of socialization and care for oneself and others.
{"title":"Life experiences and the formation of pro-ecological commitment: exploring the role of spirituality / Experiencias de vida y la formación del compromiso pro-ecológico: explorando el papel de la espiritualidad","authors":"R. Diniz, D. Morais, J. Pinheiro","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2018.1433080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2018.1433080","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In order to understand what leads people to commit to both practices of environmental care and simple living, this work investigates how significant life experiences influence people who develop a pro-ecological commitment (PEC), focusing on experiences related to either religion or spirituality. Twenty-nine people socially perceived (and referred) as having PEC (17 males, aged between 23 and 79) participated in individual semi-structured interviews and described experiences that worked as a source of influence for their own commitment. In addition to what the literature proposes on the relation between spirituality and environmental care, the accounts highlighted the distinction made between religion and spirituality; the contact with nature mediated by religious practices; associations of the idea of the sacred (divine) with the environment; and the importance of these experiences as contexts of socialization and care for oneself and others.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"37 1","pages":"237 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81699939","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 : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2017.1390034
María-Cristina Vanegas-Rico, V. Corral-Verdugo, Patricia ortEga-andEanE, José-Marcos Bustos-Aguayo
Abstract The practice of pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) can generate positive consequences for the environment and for those who engage in such behaviour. This study suggests that such consequences can, in turn, promote the future practice of pro-environmental actions. A structural model was tested, including the intrinsic and extrinsic benefits of PEB experienced by people as exogenous variables, and PEB as the endogenous variable, on a sample of 360 inhabitants of Mexico City. The model fit the data adequately and explained 24% of variance in PEB. Intrinsic and extrinsic benefits positively and significantly affected PEB, and also presented a moderately strong relationship between them, which could indicate that both types of benefits might jointly foster pro-environmental actions.
{"title":"Intrinsic and extrinsic benefits as promoters of pro-environmental behaviour / Beneficios intrínsecos y extrínsecos como promotores de la conducta proambiental","authors":"María-Cristina Vanegas-Rico, V. Corral-Verdugo, Patricia ortEga-andEanE, José-Marcos Bustos-Aguayo","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2017.1390034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2017.1390034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The practice of pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) can generate positive consequences for the environment and for those who engage in such behaviour. This study suggests that such consequences can, in turn, promote the future practice of pro-environmental actions. A structural model was tested, including the intrinsic and extrinsic benefits of PEB experienced by people as exogenous variables, and PEB as the endogenous variable, on a sample of 360 inhabitants of Mexico City. The model fit the data adequately and explained 24% of variance in PEB. Intrinsic and extrinsic benefits positively and significantly affected PEB, and also presented a moderately strong relationship between them, which could indicate that both types of benefits might jointly foster pro-environmental actions.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"2 1","pages":"33 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82436168","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 : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2017.1395144
Macarena Vallejo-Martín, M. Moreno-Jiménez
Abstract Spanish citizens have migrated to other European countries in recent years, looking for employment and new opportunities. This study examines the relationship to place developed by Spanish immigrants in the UK using residential satisfaction, place attachment and place identity. It also assesses the possible influence of these variables on perceived prejudice. Place was conceptualized as an interchangeable relationship between physical-spatial characteristics and social-human ones. With a sample of 474 participants, the results showed that people felt satisfied in their new places of residence and attached to them, although those places were largely not part of their identity. It was also noted that the longer the length of residence, the higher the levels of the psycho-environmental variables measured. However, higher income levels in the new country only had positive effects on residential satisfaction. Finally, with regard to perceived prejudice, residential satisfaction was the only explanatory factor with a residual effect (5.5%) in the sample dataset. However, taking into consideration length of residence, it was noted that for those residents who had lived in the country for more than five years, residential satisfaction was a key factor that explained 42.9% of perceived prejudice.
{"title":"Relationship to place among Spanish immigrants in the United Kingdom: effects on perceived prejudice / Relación con el lugar de inmigrantes españoles residentes en Reino Unido: efectos en el prejuicio percibido","authors":"Macarena Vallejo-Martín, M. Moreno-Jiménez","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2017.1395144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2017.1395144","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Spanish citizens have migrated to other European countries in recent years, looking for employment and new opportunities. This study examines the relationship to place developed by Spanish immigrants in the UK using residential satisfaction, place attachment and place identity. It also assesses the possible influence of these variables on perceived prejudice. Place was conceptualized as an interchangeable relationship between physical-spatial characteristics and social-human ones. With a sample of 474 participants, the results showed that people felt satisfied in their new places of residence and attached to them, although those places were largely not part of their identity. It was also noted that the longer the length of residence, the higher the levels of the psycho-environmental variables measured. However, higher income levels in the new country only had positive effects on residential satisfaction. Finally, with regard to perceived prejudice, residential satisfaction was the only explanatory factor with a residual effect (5.5%) in the sample dataset. However, taking into consideration length of residence, it was noted that for those residents who had lived in the country for more than five years, residential satisfaction was a key factor that explained 42.9% of perceived prejudice.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"11 1","pages":"110 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87170435","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 : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2017.1397896
Carol M. Werner, Robert G. Kent de Grey
Abstract An initial survey indicated university students were reluctant to turn off classroom lights in part because of concerns they were not allowed to do so. An intervention was designed to teach students they had the right and responsibility to turn off lights. Short (3–5 min) guided discussions just prior to class periods emphasized that the university requested their help to save money and energy by turning off classroom lights. Classroom lights were observed during baseline, a two-week intervention and a seven-week follow-up period. Results replicated a previous study in that lights were turned off more often in guided-discussion than in no-discussion classrooms, p < .005. In separate analyses, asking students to nod their heads if they supported the programme was associated with significantly more lights left on, compared to the same guided discussion without the head nods request, p < .02. This suggests that rather than enhancing normative influence, asking for public head nods reduced participation, perhaps through diffusion of responsibility, psychological reactance or self-validation processes.
{"title":"Brief guided group discussion and classroom lights: normative influence can be limited with a public request for commitment / Breve discusión guiada en grupo e iluminación del aula: la influencia normativa se puede limitar con una petición pública de compromiso","authors":"Carol M. Werner, Robert G. Kent de Grey","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2017.1397896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2017.1397896","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract An initial survey indicated university students were reluctant to turn off classroom lights in part because of concerns they were not allowed to do so. An intervention was designed to teach students they had the right and responsibility to turn off lights. Short (3–5 min) guided discussions just prior to class periods emphasized that the university requested their help to save money and energy by turning off classroom lights. Classroom lights were observed during baseline, a two-week intervention and a seven-week follow-up period. Results replicated a previous study in that lights were turned off more often in guided-discussion than in no-discussion classrooms, p < .005. In separate analyses, asking students to nod their heads if they supported the programme was associated with significantly more lights left on, compared to the same guided discussion without the head nods request, p < .02. This suggests that rather than enhancing normative influence, asking for public head nods reduced participation, perhaps through diffusion of responsibility, psychological reactance or self-validation processes.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"59 1","pages":"55 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84001732","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 : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2017.1412574
M. Lima, Carla Branco
Abstract Pro-environmental behaviour has often been studied as being the result of individual or rational decision making, despite the contributions from a more social approach to environmental psychology. This paper presents experimental research addressing the role of social identities and social norms in promoting pro-environmental behaviour. Following the frameworks of Social Identity Theory and Normative Focus Theory, we expect that descriptive social norms will have an impact on behaviour and that social identity will moderate this association. Place identity and descriptive norms regarding pro-environmental behaviour were manipulated in three studies. Self-reported intentions to recycle were assessed, after controlling for past recycling behaviour and environmental identity. The first study (participants: N = 43) showed that the intention of recycling was stronger when descriptive norm was higher. The second (N = 37) and the third (N = 65) studies showed an interesting interaction effect: the salience of social identity was effective when the descriptive social norm was low, and the salience of personal identity promoted recycling when the descriptive social norm was high. These results are expected to stimulate new areas of research in this domain.
{"title":"Recycling for my neighbourhood? Using place identity and social norms to promote pro-environmental behaviour / ¿Reciclar para mi barrio? Empleando la identidad de lugar y las normas sociales para fomentar el comportamiento pro-ambiental","authors":"M. Lima, Carla Branco","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2017.1412574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2017.1412574","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Pro-environmental behaviour has often been studied as being the result of individual or rational decision making, despite the contributions from a more social approach to environmental psychology. This paper presents experimental research addressing the role of social identities and social norms in promoting pro-environmental behaviour. Following the frameworks of Social Identity Theory and Normative Focus Theory, we expect that descriptive social norms will have an impact on behaviour and that social identity will moderate this association. Place identity and descriptive norms regarding pro-environmental behaviour were manipulated in three studies. Self-reported intentions to recycle were assessed, after controlling for past recycling behaviour and environmental identity. The first study (participants: N = 43) showed that the intention of recycling was stronger when descriptive norm was higher. The second (N = 37) and the third (N = 65) studies showed an interesting interaction effect: the salience of social identity was effective when the descriptive social norm was low, and the salience of personal identity promoted recycling when the descriptive social norm was high. These results are expected to stimulate new areas of research in this domain.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"50 1","pages":"1 - 32"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79656828","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 : 2017-09-02DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2017.1359372
Jean-Baptiste Corrégé, C. Clavel, Julien Christophe, M. Ammi
Abstract We propose a study that aims to evaluate the impact of social injunctive normative messages on users of a building renovation application. We used software that allowed participants to design renovation projects from an existing building and test different configurations. The main objective of this research was to evaluate the efficiency of injunctive social norms in order to incentivize energy-efficient renovation. We compared three groups varying in the presence or absence of the normative message and its salience. Results showed that compared to the control group, the salient injunctive norm group designs significantly more energy efficient buildings. We also found a marginally significant difference between non-salient injunctive norm and salient injunctive norm groups. Results have several implications for both social norm researchers and designers of similar applications.
{"title":"Using social injunctive norms to nudge users to build green houses / El empleo de normas prescriptivas sociales para animar a los usuarios a construir casas ecológicas","authors":"Jean-Baptiste Corrégé, C. Clavel, Julien Christophe, M. Ammi","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2017.1359372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2017.1359372","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We propose a study that aims to evaluate the impact of social injunctive normative messages on users of a building renovation application. We used software that allowed participants to design renovation projects from an existing building and test different configurations. The main objective of this research was to evaluate the efficiency of injunctive social norms in order to incentivize energy-efficient renovation. We compared three groups varying in the presence or absence of the normative message and its salience. Results showed that compared to the control group, the salient injunctive norm group designs significantly more energy efficient buildings. We also found a marginally significant difference between non-salient injunctive norm and salient injunctive norm groups. Results have several implications for both social norm researchers and designers of similar applications.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"33 1","pages":"297 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81773510","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 : 2017-09-02DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2017.1363132
C. Demarque, M. Lima
Abstract In recent years there have been growing expectations from policymakers towards social sciences in order to reach sustainability goals. Research on social norms is often used to promote changes in pro-environmental behaviour. However, the underlying social psychological mechanisms that explain those changes are not yet well described. This special issue puts together four papers that, from different perspectives, contribute to innovation in this field, proposing theoretically relevant mediators and contextual moderators.
{"title":"Special issue of Psyecology: social norms and environmental behaviour / Número especial de Psyecology: normas sociales y comportamiento ambiental","authors":"C. Demarque, M. Lima","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2017.1363132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2017.1363132","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In recent years there have been growing expectations from policymakers towards social sciences in order to reach sustainability goals. Research on social norms is often used to promote changes in pro-environmental behaviour. However, the underlying social psychological mechanisms that explain those changes are not yet well described. This special issue puts together four papers that, from different perspectives, contribute to innovation in this field, proposing theoretically relevant mediators and contextual moderators.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"1 1","pages":"257 - 266"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89650934","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 : 2017-09-02DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2017.1359371
Lolita Rubens, Johanna Le Conte, C. Assegond, Emilie Fairier, Raphael Salvazet, Barbara Bonnefoy, Anne-Cécile Baud
Abstract Energy-efficient houses are designed to reduce electricity. However, a gap between theoretical and actual energy performance of buildings is often observed. Achieving energy efficiency through regulatory norms is insufficient, and ways must be found to change people’s behaviours. In this line, normative feedback could be a powerful tool to reduce residential energy consumption. In the present research, 14 low-energy buildings were equipped to measure energy consumption. Their occupants received descriptive normative messages used to promote household energy saving. We were interested in the quantitative impact of normative feedback on household consumption, but also in the way in which these households receive the information linked to normative feedback and how they adapt to it. The results showed that energy-efficient houses are not an environment in which people could learn new practices if they do not have knowledgeable pre-requisites. A normative feedback can help change habits only for people who have the knowledge regarding energy issues that allows them to understand the feedback. For most households, the information is not understood and does not lead to behavioural change.
{"title":"How do French social housing tenants interpret normative descriptive feedback connected with energy? / ¿Cómo interpretan los inquilinos de vivienda social en Francia los mensajes normativos descriptivos respecto al consumo de energía?","authors":"Lolita Rubens, Johanna Le Conte, C. Assegond, Emilie Fairier, Raphael Salvazet, Barbara Bonnefoy, Anne-Cécile Baud","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2017.1359371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2017.1359371","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Energy-efficient houses are designed to reduce electricity. However, a gap between theoretical and actual energy performance of buildings is often observed. Achieving energy efficiency through regulatory norms is insufficient, and ways must be found to change people’s behaviours. In this line, normative feedback could be a powerful tool to reduce residential energy consumption. In the present research, 14 low-energy buildings were equipped to measure energy consumption. Their occupants received descriptive normative messages used to promote household energy saving. We were interested in the quantitative impact of normative feedback on household consumption, but also in the way in which these households receive the information linked to normative feedback and how they adapt to it. The results showed that energy-efficient houses are not an environment in which people could learn new practices if they do not have knowledgeable pre-requisites. A normative feedback can help change habits only for people who have the knowledge regarding energy issues that allows them to understand the feedback. For most households, the information is not understood and does not lead to behavioural change.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"21 1","pages":"323 - 353"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81460303","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 : 2017-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21711976.2017.1304880
Sergi Valera-Pertegas, Joan Guàrdia-Olmos
Abstract The concept of vulnerability is directly linked with perceived insecurity and fear of crime, especially with regard to women and older people in our cities. However, it is not the only paradigm contemplated in the analysis of this phenomenon. In addition to a model of vulnerability, some scholars propose a model of disorder and a model of social integration. The aim of this article is to set out some of the results obtained from a questionnaire about perceived insecurity in eight public spaces in the city of Barcelona. It analyses the relationship between the variables of gender and age, and factors in the questionnaire linked to the model of vulnerability (coping, prior experiences and social representation), disorder (perceived environmental quality and tolerance towards uncivil behaviours) and social integration (satisfaction/identification and social cohesion). The findings indicate that the models of vulnerability and disorder have a greater impact on perceived insecurity in the case of women, whereas older people displayed no differences from other groups with regard to perceived insecurity, associated with a greater influence of the model of social integration.
{"title":"Vulnerability and perceived insecurity in the public spaces of Barcelona / Vulnerabilidad y percepción de inseguridad en el espacio público de la ciudad de Barcelona","authors":"Sergi Valera-Pertegas, Joan Guàrdia-Olmos","doi":"10.1080/21711976.2017.1304880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2017.1304880","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The concept of vulnerability is directly linked with perceived insecurity and fear of crime, especially with regard to women and older people in our cities. However, it is not the only paradigm contemplated in the analysis of this phenomenon. In addition to a model of vulnerability, some scholars propose a model of disorder and a model of social integration. The aim of this article is to set out some of the results obtained from a questionnaire about perceived insecurity in eight public spaces in the city of Barcelona. It analyses the relationship between the variables of gender and age, and factors in the questionnaire linked to the model of vulnerability (coping, prior experiences and social representation), disorder (perceived environmental quality and tolerance towards uncivil behaviours) and social integration (satisfaction/identification and social cohesion). The findings indicate that the models of vulnerability and disorder have a greater impact on perceived insecurity in the case of women, whereas older people displayed no differences from other groups with regard to perceived insecurity, associated with a greater influence of the model of social integration.","PeriodicalId":55641,"journal":{"name":"Psyecology-Revista Bilingue de Psicologia Ambiental","volume":"48 1","pages":"177 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2017-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75487418","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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