A VBN theory view on pro-environmental behavior and life satisfaction: Turkey’s recent legislation on plastic carry bags

Yakut, Enis

doi:10.1007/s12144-021-01353-y

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“…Prior studies reveal that satisfaction enhances environmentally responsible behavior [37,112]. In other contexts, such as environment-friendly behavior involving plastic bag use and island tourism, satisfaction has been found to promote environmentally responsible behavior [41,64,65]. Overall, the results of these empirical tests confirm the role of satisfaction in predicting pro-environmental behavior in tourism [30,70].…”

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Predicting Private and Public Pro-Environmental Behaviors in Rural Tourism Contexts Using SEM and fsQCA: The Role of Destination Image and Relationship Quality

Rao

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Morrison

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The importance of pro-environmental behavior in tourism has been established, but explaining its sub-dimensions, especially in the private and public dimensions, is under-researched. Existing literature on tourism research mainly uses SEM to analyze tourist pro-environmental behavior, while fsQCA is scarcely implemented. In this study, SEM is applied to reveal the links among destination image, relationship quality, and pro-environmental behavior, while fsQCA is utilized to investigate configurations predicting pro-environmental behavior. Responses of 285 tourists were collected and analyzed to test the proposed hypotheses. The SEM results showed that (1) destination image directly and positively affected relationship quality (including satisfaction and destination trust); (2) relationship quality was found to positively and directly influence private and public pro-environmental behaviors; (3) relationship quality did mediate the influence of destination image on private pro-environmental behavior partially, while it played a full mediating role in the effect of destination image on public pro-environmental behavior. The findings from fsQCA indicated that (1) three sufficient configurations consistently lead to a high level of private pro-environmental behavior: (a) high destination image and satisfaction, (b) high destination image and trust, (c) high relationship quality; (2) there was only one sufficient causal configuration for a high level of public pro-environmental behavior: high relationship quality. The results provide tenable evidence that relationship quality can be a vital factor enhancing the sub-dimensions of pro-environmental behavior. The integration of these two methods helps to open the black box of tourist pro-environmental behavior in rural tourism contexts in a more systematic and holistic way.

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Section: Link Between Relationship Quality and Tourist Pro-environmen...supporting

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“…In the tourism context, satisfaction refers to visitors' affective reactions to experienced behaviors during the visit [61]. Satisfaction has a profound impact on individuals' behavioral-making processes such as loyalty [39], product consumption [62,63], and pro-environmental behavior [40,64,65].…”

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Predicting Private and Public Pro-Environmental Behaviors in Rural Tourism Contexts Using SEM and fsQCA: The Role of Destination Image and Relationship Quality

Rao

Qiu

Morrison

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“…The VBN theory has been widely used to explain pro-environmental behavior in different contexts, such as in sustainable consumption (Han et al, 2020 ; Yakut, 2021 ; Ahn and Kwon, 2022 ), sustainable tourism (Han, 2015 , 2021 ; Manosuthi et al, 2020 ; Sharma and Gupta, 2020 ), sustainable management of protected marine areas (Wynveen et al, 2015 ), and different geographical and ethnic contexts (Chen, 2015 ; Ghazali et al, 2019 ; Medina et al, 2019 ). Although thorough VBN applications for agriculture are still few in numbers, the separate VBN elements have been included in many studies in the agricultural sector, for example, connections between climate change beliefs to adaptation and mitigation action in Denmark (Jørgensen and Termansen, 2016 ), and climate change beliefs and norms in Scotland (Barnes and Toma, 2012 ) and Germany (Eggers et al, 2015 ; Jantke et al, 2020 ).…”

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Climate change opportunities reduce farmers' risk perception: Extension of the value-belief-norm theory in the context of Finnish agriculture

2022

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Global agriculture faces severe challenges due to climate change. For boreal agriculture, climate change might also bring opportunities as the growing season lengthens, if the risks of climate change are managed properly. Agricultural production is a source of greenhouse gases, while agricultural land has also a great possibility to mitigate climate change as a carbon sink. Farmers are the central group for implementing these actions. Their views and beliefs contribute to their corresponding pro-environmental agricultural behavior. This research is based on the theory of value-belief-norm (VBN) as a predictive model of pro-environmental agricultural behavior. We extend the theory by studying how opportunities caused by climate change affect pro-environmental behavior in agriculture and present differences between farmer groups and experiment with the longitudinal possibilities of the theoretical model. Based on the structured survey responses from 4,401 farmers in Finland in 2018 and 2000 responses in 2020, we found that all the elements of VBN theory did help to predict intention for climate change mitigation, among which felt possibility to perform mitigation practices was the strongest predictor while risk perception was rather an unimportant one. Furthermore, opportunities caused directly or indirectly by climate change have an effect on Finnish farmer's implementation of mitigation practices. Therefore, future efforts in agricultural research and policy in Finland should concentrate to bring forth concrete farm-level mitigation practices with proven environmental benefits and the direct and indirect opportunities should be given more attention.

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“…Thøgersen and Olander [26] identified weak relationships between environmental concerns and pro-environmental behavior. Yakut [27] showed that concern for the biosphere has a negative impact on life satisfaction, whereas self-concern has a positive impact on life satisfaction. Altruistic concerns, on the other hand, had no impact on life satisfaction.…”

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Analyzing Attitudes to Promote Sustainability: The Adaptation of the Environmental Concern Scale (ECs) to the Italian Context

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The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Environmental Concern scale (ECs) in the Italian context. Three studies were conducted. In Study 1, we carried out an exploratory factor analysis and a 2-factor solution-biospheric concern and egoistic concern—was confirmed. In Study 2, we tested the structure of the eight-items version of the ECs, using confirmatory factor analysis. The 2-factor structure was the best factorial solution. In this study we correlated the dimensions of ECs with life satisfaction and climate change worry. As expected, biospheric concern was significantly related to climate change worry, and egoistic concern was significantly related to life satisfaction. In Study 3, we tested the gender invariance. The ECs structure was the same for men and women. These studies demonstrate that the ECs possess good construct validity, factor structure, and invariance between genders. The measure can be used in the Italian context for future research.

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A VBN theory view on pro-environmental behavior and life satisfaction: Turkey’s recent legislation on plastic carry bags

Cited by 17 publications

References 66 publications

Predicting Private and Public Pro-Environmental Behaviors in Rural Tourism Contexts Using SEM and fsQCA: The Role of Destination Image and Relationship Quality

Predicting Private and Public Pro-Environmental Behaviors in Rural Tourism Contexts Using SEM and fsQCA: The Role of Destination Image and Relationship Quality

Climate change opportunities reduce farmers' risk perception: Extension of the value-belief-norm theory in the context of Finnish agriculture

Analyzing Attitudes to Promote Sustainability: The Adaptation of the Environmental Concern Scale (ECs) to the Italian Context

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