Examining the socio-psychological predictors of tree-planting behaviour using the theory of planned behaviour: A study of a cohort of Nigerian urban workers

A Tree-Prone Community: Residential and Street Tree Planting and Care in the Neotropical City of Xalapa, Mexico

“…While residential and street tree planting and care practices appeared to be related to some of the dwellings' characteristics evaluated, it would be useful to evaluate the role of other dwelling, neighborhood, or individual attributes that we did not consider in this study, such as education, population density, age, or gender (Greene et al 2011;Donovan and Mills 2014;Conway 2016;Watkins et al 2017;Guo et al 2019;Cattivelli 2022;Ibrahim et al 2022;Danquah et al 2023). At the individual level, we did not assess possible relationships between respondents' characteristics and residential and street tree planting and care in Xalapa, as has been done in other studies (Marco et al 2010), because our respondents were not necessarily those who made the decisions regarding tree planting and care in the surveyed dwellings, the reason why we here focused only on dwelling characteristics.…”

“…Nevertheless, implementing programs to engage people in residential tree planting can be challenging because of the diversity of individuals' attitudes, motivations, knowledge, and preferences regarding tree attributes, functions, and maintenance (Gilbertson and Bradshaw 1985;Summit and McPherson 1998;Conway 2016). Furthermore, street and residential tree planting and care have been associated with characteristics of individuals, households, and neighborhoods (e.g., gender, education, income, homeownership, length of residence, housing age, ethnicity), with contrasting results by region, city, or neighborhood, although often positively associated with women, homeowners, higher income, and higher education (Summit and McPherson 1998;Greene et al 2011;Kirkpatrick et al 2012;Donovan and Mills 2014;Watkins et al 2017;Oh et al 2021;Ibrahim et al 2022).…”

“…This strategy needs to be implemented at different scales within the city and with the collaboration of several stakeholders intervening at several levels of stewardship (Andersson et al 2014;Breger et al 2019). To implement these strategies, additional information is needed on motives, knowledge, and decisions behind people's tree preferences (Camacho-Cervantes et al 2014;Speak et al 2022), other tree planting and care practices (Cattivelli 2022;Ibrahim et al 2022;Lange et al 2022), as well as on aspects such as tree species composition, survival and mortality rates (Roman et al 2014;Breger et al 2019;Salisbury et al 2022), frequency of care practices, and assessment of other household and individual characteristics (Marco et al 2010;Ibrahim et al 2022). This study is a first step toward a comprehensive understanding of how people's actions on private and public lands can impact the city's greenery for the benefit of the people themselves and the wildlife groups in Xalapa.…”

Public attitudes and participation in green cultural heritage conservation: An application of the extended theory of planned behavior

“…Huang et al (2021) used TPB to predict citizen participation behavior in urban green space governance. In order to exam the s socio-psychological precursors of tree-planting behaviour, Ibrahim et al (2022) explored the psychosocial predictors of treeplanting behavior among Nigerian civil servants using TPB. Wan et al (2018) Therefore, the TPB provides a robust framework for investigating the determinants of citizens' intentions and behaviors, making it suitable for our examination of public attitudes and behaviors towards green cultural heritage (GCH) conservation.…”

“…Behavioral intention indicates the plan and determination to perform a target behavior (Lee, 2016). Ibrahim et al (2022) argued that being subjected to the performance of any behavior is the result of the intention to perform such behavior; that is, the actual actions of people are explained through behavioral intention, which further explains the effect of intention on pro-environmental behavior. Therefore, we hypothesize the following:…”