Faster, harder, greener? Empirical evidence on the role of the individual Pace of Life for productivity and pro-environmental behavior

Hoffmann, Christin; Hoppe, Julia Amelie; Ziemann, Niklas

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107212

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“…Pace of life is correlated to suicide rate (Lester, 1999), quality of life (Garhammer, 2002), and heart diseases (Levine & Bartlett, 1984). It is also been found associated with stress levels (Lippke, Schalk, Kühnen & Shang, 2021), effort exhausted to work (Vedula & Kim, 2017), high level of body temperature which induces stress (Melnikov, Krzhizhanovskaya, Lees, Sloot, 2020), driving speed (Goldbach, Hoffmann, Hoppe, Pitz & Thommes, 2020) and work performance (Hoffmann, Hoppe & Ziemann, 2021;Hoffmann, Hoppe & Ziemann, 2022). Not only affecting people directly, pace of life could also influence the rate of information distribution in one area.…”

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Comparing the pace of life of a city: size and average temperature as predictors

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Baswara

Adira

2022

Psychol. Res. Interv.

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Pace of life has been found to be associated with various life outcomes such as mental health and well-being to information distribution and economic development. Every city has a different pace of life due to its specific characteristics. Across two studies, we examined the role of temperature and number of populations (city size) as the predictors of pace of life. In the first study, we compared Bandung and Jakarta and in the second study, we compared Jakarta and Depok. Each pace of life index was generated by mean scores of walking speed, working speed and clock accuracy. Through field observation in each city's Central Business District, we found that based on temperature, Jakarta has higher means of walking speed (M=15.3) compared to Bandung (M=13.6), significantly with mean difference 1.71 (t(158)=5.32, p.001, d=0.841). Jakarta is also significantly higher on the working speed indicator (M=25.7) compared to Bandung (M=17.5) with mean difference 8.22 (t(18)=2.49, p=.011). In the second study, we found that Jakarta has significantly lower means of walking speed (M=14.3) compared to Depok (M=17.9) with mean difference 3.54, t(158)=11.058, p.001. Similarly, Jakarta also has lower means of working speed (M=18.58) and clock accuracy (M=1.33) compared to Depok (M working speed=19.9, M clock accuracy=3.67), although not significant. Overall, as predicted, based on temperature, the colder city Bandung has a faster pace of life compared to Jakarta. Jakarta also has a faster pace of life compared to Bandung, although significant only for its walking speed.

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Comparing the pace of life of a city: size and average temperature as predictors

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Baswara

Adira

2022

Psychol. Res. Interv.

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“…InHoffmann et al (2021) we report on characteristics which are associated with the speed-accuracy tradeoff. InHoffmann et al (2022) we present evidence on the role of the individual Pace of Life for productivity and pro-environmental behaviour. The experiment was ethically approved by the German Association for Experimental Economic Research e.V.5 The literature has already shown that donations to a tree-planting project reflect an appropriate way to measure pro-environmental behaviour (e.g.…”

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Who has the future in mind? Gender, time perspectives, and pro-environmental behaviour

Ziemann

Hoppe

Hoffmann

2022

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Introduction: An individual’s relation to time may be an important driver of pro-environmental behaviour. Objective: We studied whether young individual's gender and time-orientation are associated with pro-environmental behaviour. Methods: In a controlled laboratory environment with students in Germany, participants earned money by performing a real-effort task and were then offered the opportunity to invest their money into an environmental project that supports climate protection. Afterwards, we controlled for their time orientation. Results: In this consequential behavioural setting, we find that males who scored higher on future-negative orientation showed significantly more pro-environmental behaviour compared to females who scored higher on future-negative orientation and males who scored lower on future-negative orientation. Interestingly, our results are completely reversed when it comes to past-positive orientation. Conclusion: These findings have practical implications regarding the most appropriate way to address individuals in order to achieve more pro-environmental behaviour.

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Environmentally friendly behaviors and commuting patterns among tertiary students: the case of University of Tehran, Iran

Pazhuhan¹,

Soltani

Ghorbani

et al. 2022

Environ Dev Sustain

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Faster, harder, greener? Empirical evidence on the role of the individual Pace of Life for productivity and pro-environmental behavior

Cited by 6 publications

References 76 publications

Comparing the pace of life of a city: size and average temperature as predictors

Comparing the pace of life of a city: size and average temperature as predictors

Who has the future in mind? Gender, time perspectives, and pro-environmental behaviour

Environmentally friendly behaviors and commuting patterns among tertiary students: the case of University of Tehran, Iran

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