Gender differences in eating behavior and environmental attitudes – The mediating role of the Dark Triad

Mertens, Alica; Krause, M.; Denk, Alexandra; Heitz, Theresia

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.110359

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“…Accordingly, the pro-environmental attitude went hand in hand with the light triad but was negatively related to the dark tetrad. Thus, the data supported findings from previous literature on the negative relationship between the dark side of personality and PEB ( Mertens et al, 2021 ; Kesenheimer and Greitemeyer, 2021b ), as well as on a positive relationship between the light triad and PEB ( Cooke, 2020 ).…”

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“…Recent results showed a negative association of Machiavellianism and psychopathy with environmental attitudes ( Huang et al, 2019 ). In addition, Machiavellianism predicted the justification of eating meat ( Mertens et al, 2021 ). Psychopathy describes people who are exceptionally impulsive, looking for thrills and have very little empathy ( Lilienfeld and Andrews, 1996 ; Furnham et al, 2013 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…People who score relatively high on everyday sadism take pleasure in seeing others suffer harm (e.g., Greitemeyer et al, 2019 ). It has been discussed (but not yet examined) that everyday sadism is negatively associated with attitudes toward the environment ( Mertens et al, 2021 ). Taken together, the dark tetrad and PEB should be negatively related due to this socially aversive nature ( Paulhus and Williams, 2002 ; Huang et al, 2019 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Going Green Is Exhausting for Dark Personalities but Beneficial for the Light Ones: An Experience Sampling Study That Examines the Subjectivity of Pro-environmental Behavior

Kesenheimer

Greitemeyer

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Study 1 examined how personality and attitudes are related to daily pro-environmental behavior (PEB) and whether these relationships are moderated by perceived behavioral costs and benefits. One hundred and seventy-eight participants responded to scales measuring the dark and light side of personality, as well as their pro-environmental attitude. Afterward, they were notified three times a day for 7 days in a row. Each time they reported their PEB that had occurred in the past four hours and indicated their behavioral costs and benefits. Multilevel analyses showed a positive relationship between the frequency of PEB and the light triad of personality and pro-environmental attitude, while the dark tetrad was negatively related to PEB. Unexpectedly, less environmentally aware participants reported to engage in PEB with higher costs and lower benefits than did pro-environmental participants. A second study (N = 159) suggests that less environmentally aware people do not actually engage in PEB with high costs and low benefits, but rather that they only perceive their behavior to be costly and of little benefit. Overall, our findings suggest that the way people perceive their daily PEB is not necessarily shared by others.

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Going Green Is Exhausting for Dark Personalities but Beneficial for the Light Ones: An Experience Sampling Study That Examines the Subjectivity of Pro-environmental Behavior

Kesenheimer

Greitemeyer

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Females are not only sufferers from environmental degradation and climate change, but they also keep the awareness and skills that are central to finding local solutions. Therefore, the environmental programs, policies, and finance must incorporate and benefit from this knowledge and skills while supporting females in the face of contemporary unprecedented environmental experiments [ 57 ].…”

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Corporate Social Responsibility at the Micro-Level as a “New Organizational Value” for Sustainability: Are Females More Aligned towards It?

Ahmad

Ullah

Mahmood

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While prior studies have largely addressed corporate social responsibility (CSR) at a macro or institutional level, its importance at the micro or individual level is to date underexplored, especially in the context of developing economies. Further, it is not clear from the studies in the extant literature how the role of females is more important in the context of environmental management as compared to males. Similarly, micro-level CSR (MCSR) is emerging as a “new organizational value”, and the organizations that acknowledge this “new organizational value” and incorporate it into their business operations are likely to achieve sustainability objectives far better as compared to their counterparts. The present study investigates the impact of MCSR on employees’ pro-environmental behavior with the moderating effect of gender in the healthcare sector of Pakistan. The data were collected from five large hospitals in the city of Lahore through a self-administered questionnaire and analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) in AMOS software. A total of 533 out of 800 responses were received, which were used for data analysis of the present study. The results revealed that MCSR positively influences employee’s pro-environmental behavior, and gender moderates this relationship but the moderating effect of females is stronger as compared to males. The findings of the present study would help policymakers understand the importance of MCSR as a “new organizational value” to influence employees’ pro-environmental behavior with a special focus to promote the proactive role of females at workplaces.

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“…In 2020, Mertens and colleagues examined the relationship between Dark Triad, and meat-eating justification and meat consumption in Germany, and noted that Machiavellianism was partly able to explain gender differences in meat-eating justification strategies and behaviors [ 17 ]. More recently, Mertens and colleagues examined the relationship between Dark Triad and eating behaviors in a large sample of German population, and also found evidence that Machiavellianism plays an important role in explaining gender differences in meat-eating justification strategies [ 18 ].…”

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Differential Eating Behavior Patterns among the Dark Triad

Shi

Sun

Geng

2022

IJERPH

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There is little extant empirical literature examining the associations between Dark Triad (DT: Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) and eating behaviors. The current study (n = 361) investigated the associations between Dark Triad and restrained eating, uncontrolled eating, and emotional eating in a sample drawn from the general population. The results from the study indicate that (a) despite expected sex differences in narcissism and primary psychopathy, no sex differences were found in Machiavellianism, secondary psychopathy, and eating behaviors; (b) among women, Machiavellianism was a protective factor against uncontrolled eating behaviors; (c) the sex of the participant moderated the narcissism–uncontrolled eating behaviors and narcissism–emotional eating behaviors relationships, with the negative correlation being stronger for men than that for women; (d) secondary psychopathy, rather than primary psychopathy, was associated with higher uncontrolled eating behaviors in both sexes, and associated with higher emotional eating behaviors for men only. The implication of these findings are interpreted and discussed.

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Gender differences in eating behavior and environmental attitudes – The mediating role of the Dark Triad

Cited by 19 publications

References 38 publications

Going Green Is Exhausting for Dark Personalities but Beneficial for the Light Ones: An Experience Sampling Study That Examines the Subjectivity of Pro-environmental Behavior

Going Green Is Exhausting for Dark Personalities but Beneficial for the Light Ones: An Experience Sampling Study That Examines the Subjectivity of Pro-environmental Behavior

Corporate Social Responsibility at the Micro-Level as a “New Organizational Value” for Sustainability: Are Females More Aligned towards It?

Differential Eating Behavior Patterns among the Dark Triad

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