Measuring pro-environmental behavior using the carbon emission task

Berger, Sebastian; Wyss, Annika M.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101613

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“…Preserving nature and the biosphere by improving carbon emissions is a critical challenge faced by Global South nations. In this vein, climate data indicate that efforts at every level are required to reduce CO 2 emissions [4]. The energy sector worldwide is held responsible for increasing the world's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.…”

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Environmentally Specific Servant Leadership and Employees’ Energy-Specific Pro-Environmental Behavior: Evidence from Healthcare Sector of a Developing Economy

Peng

Samad

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Environmental issues are significantly rising worldwide. Addressing the environmental issues and preserving the biosphere is a critical matter of concern in this era. The sheer amount of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the world is related to the energy sector, especially electrical energy. A bulk of electrical energy is consumed by individuals in buildings for cooling and heating purposes. Prior researchers have emphasized employing clean and green energy sources to deal with environmental issues. The role of green energy from a decarbonization aspect is unchallengeable. However, a critical gap in most energy-related studies exists in the available literature. That is, most of the literature focuses on the supply side (the production) of energy, neglecting the critical issue lies with the demand side (consumption side). Energy data show that a sheer amount of electrical energy is wasted by individuals due to their inadequate energy consumption behavior. In this respect, a country’s healthcare system uses a significant amount of electrical energy. In particular, hospital staff uses a bulk of electricity during patient treatment, care, and other service delivery operations. The critical aim of this study is to improve the energy-specific pro-environmental behavior (EPEB) of hospital employees in an environmentally specific servant leadership (ESL) framework. Specifically, the study was conducted in Pakistan, which is a developing country. This study also tests the mediating effect of green self-efficacy (GSE) and green perceived organizational support (GPOS) in the above-proposed relationship. The data for the current work were collected from hospital employees by employing a survey strategy (n = 316) from a developing country. Structural equation modeling was considered to analyze the data, which confirmed that a servant leader with environmental preferences could significantly drive the EPEB of employees (β = 0.699), while GSE (β = 0.138) and GPOS (β = 0.102) mediated this relationship. The findings of this study can help the healthcare sector to improve its efforts toward de-carbonization by improving the energy consumption behavior of employees through ESL, GSE, and GPOS.

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Environmentally Specific Servant Leadership and Employees’ Energy-Specific Pro-Environmental Behavior: Evidence from Healthcare Sector of a Developing Economy

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“…Consequential laboratory tasks have been used to study, for example, the effect of feedback ( Camargo and Haydu, 2016 ) or contextual manipulations ( Lange et al, 2020 ) on pro-environmental behavior. Such tasks may also help to integrate research in behavior analysis, environmental psychology, and experimental economics ( Berger and Wyss, 2021 ).…”

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Potential Contributions of Behavior Analysis to Research on Pro-environmental Behavior

Wille

Lange

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Large parts of contemporary research on pro-environmental behavior focus on mechanistic explanations and mental constructs. Exclusive reliance on this approach may hinder the search for novel solutions to conceptual problems, more powerful methods, and innovative behavior change interventions. Theoretical diversity, on the other hand, can render a field adaptive in its responses to crises and impasses. Against this background, we describe the complementary approach of behavior analysis and its potential contributions to problems of contemporary research on pro-environmental behavior. Behavior analysis (1) provides a consistent account of phenomena that are difficult to reconcile with the mechanistic perspective, (2) redirects the spotlight to context, (3) provides a framework and methodology for assessing behavior with actual environmental impact, and (4) could inspire the development of new intervention techniques. Based on these contributions, we conclude that behavior analysis could substantially enrich research on pro-environmental behavior.

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“…Global warming, irregular weather cycles, poor air index, polluted water, rising floods, and droughts in various regions of the planet are some of the critical challenges of this age (Kong et al, 2021). Considering the hazards associated with climate change, researchers and practitioners have already indicated that every segment of an economy has to contribute if this world has to hope for a carbon-free future (Berger and Wyss, 2021). Recent climate data by the United Nations (UN) has already mentioned that to mitigate extreme climatic conditions to have a livable planet, the temperature increase at the global level needs to be restricted by 1.5°C above the pre-industrial era (United Nations, 2022).…”

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Advancing the debate on hotel employees’ environmental psychology by promoting energy-saving behavior in a corporate social responsibility framework

Yang¹,

Cherian

Sial

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Front. Psychol.

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Considering the vulnerable climatic conditions in most parts of the planet, a successful transition toward a carbon-free future is a critical challenge worldwide. In this respect, around 35% of the world's total greenhouse gas emission (GHG) is associated with the power sector (especially electrical energy). To this end, a vast of electrical energy has been used by the people in buildings. Specifically, a significant amount of energy in buildings is used for heating, cooling, and ventilation. While the available literature highlights the importance of neat, clean, and green electrical energy for the decarbonization of society, a critical gap exists in such literature. That is, most of the literature under this stream deals with the supply side (production) of electrical energy, while the demand side (consumption at an individual level) was neglected. To bridge this critical knowledge gap, this study investigates how the CSR engagement of a hotel organization can promote the energy-related pro-environmental behavior (ERPEB) among the employees with the intervening effect of employees' environmental commitment (EMEC) and Green intrinsic motivation (GRIM). Further, the conditional indirect role of altruistic values was also tested in this study. The data were collected from different hotel employees in Pakistan with the help of a self-administered questionnaire. We tested the hypothesized relationship through structural equation modeling (SEM). The results confirmed that CSR can be a potential motivator to impact the ERPEB of employees, while EMEC and GRIM mediated this relationship significantly. The findings of this study also confirmed the conditional indirect role of altruistic values. These findings offer various theoretical and practical contributions which are conversed in detail.

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Measuring pro-environmental behavior using the carbon emission task

Cited by 79 publications

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Environmentally Specific Servant Leadership and Employees’ Energy-Specific Pro-Environmental Behavior: Evidence from Healthcare Sector of a Developing Economy

Environmentally Specific Servant Leadership and Employees’ Energy-Specific Pro-Environmental Behavior: Evidence from Healthcare Sector of a Developing Economy

Potential Contributions of Behavior Analysis to Research on Pro-environmental Behavior

Advancing the debate on hotel employees’ environmental psychology by promoting energy-saving behavior in a corporate social responsibility framework

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