2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00765.x
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Environmentalism as a Context for Expressing Identity and Generativity: Patterns Among Activists and Uninvolved Youth and Midlife Adults

Abstract: Previous qualitative studies have identified themes of generativity and identity development in the interviews of environmental activists (Chan, 2009; Horwitz, 1996), suggesting their importance as motives for environmental behavior. The purpose of our study was to extend this work by identifying positive relationships between identity maturity, generativity, and environmentalism using quantitative methodologies. To explore these relationships, we designed quasi-experimental and correlational studies. We recru… Show more

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“…Green employees deploy their environmental impact no matter at which organizational level they are situated. This assumption is supported by several conceptual as well as empirical studies that identify green identity as a crucial determinant of high-intensity pro-environmental behavior at work [19,[76][77][78].…”
Section: Green Identitymentioning
confidence: 56%
“…Green employees deploy their environmental impact no matter at which organizational level they are situated. This assumption is supported by several conceptual as well as empirical studies that identify green identity as a crucial determinant of high-intensity pro-environmental behavior at work [19,[76][77][78].…”
Section: Green Identitymentioning
confidence: 56%
“…Individually focused identities were predominantly studied (n = 59) compared with group-focused identities (n = 34), or placefocused identities (n = 6). In addition, people can have multiple specific identities such as multiple individual (Kiesling & Manning, 2010;Matsuba et al, 2012;Murtagh et al, 2012), group (Bartels & Hoogendam, 2011;Murtagh et al, 2012) and place identities (Halpenny, 2010;Swim et al, 2014 Nigbur et al, 2010;Terry et al, 1999) and a mix of individually-and place-focused identities (Swim, Zawadzki, Cundiff, & Lord, 2014;Tam, 2013). Finally, we did not find participants having a mix of group-and place-focused identities nor individually-, group-, and place-focused identities because we did not find these combinations studied.…”
Section: Assumptions 1a-c: Any One Person Can Have Plural Individuamentioning
confidence: 85%
“…Indeed, our initial scan of the literature reveals that the different identities are not always associated with behaviour (Matsuba et al, 2012).…”
Section: Assumptions 2a-c: Multiple Identities' Relate To Any Peb Typementioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, there are emerging data from narrative and conversational research in our and others' labs that suggest maternal socialization processes as one route to individual differences in the ways children manage their own moral wrongdoing [Laible & Thompson, 2002;Reese, Bird, & Tripp, 2007;Wang, Leichtman, & Davies, 2000]. In other work, researchers have begun asking about the kinds of experiences that might be explicitly connected to attunement to the moral concerns embedded in particular domains, such as environmentalism [Matsuba et al, 2012]. Furthermore, one could also ask about the kinds of experiences, reflections, maternal and other socialization processes, and broader sociocultural factors that lead some individuals to view moral concerns as so identity-central that conflicts between the personal and the moral are attenuated [e.g., Colby & Damon, 1992;Frimer et al, 2011].…”
Section: The Development Of Individual Differences In Forms Of Moral mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, this approach may also unveil individual differences in the nature of the particular events that catalyze a strong investment in moral concerns [Matsuba, Pratt, Norris, Mohle, Alisat, & McAdams, 2012]. It may also allow us to observe individual differences in the breadth or narrowness of what people view as relevant targets for moral concerns [e.g., Kahn, Friedman, Perez-Granados, & Freier, 2006], as well as in the ways they manage tradeoffs between moral and nonmoral concerns [e.g., Smetana et al, 2014].…”
Section: How To Capture the Various Forms That Moral Identity Might Tmentioning
confidence: 99%