Perceptions of Self-Motives and Environmental Activists’ Motives for Pro-Environmental Behavior

Geiger, Nathaniel

doi:10.20944/preprints202208.0407.v1

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“…Choosing to socialize during the pandemic despite the health threats might reflect a desire to retain control. Conversely, however, the desire to feel powerful could also motivate individuals to try to influence others toward action on a particular issue (e.g., see Geiger, 2022a). Therefore, when communicating policy options or designing interventions to promote public engagement and behavior change, it is valuable to consider perceptions of control and boost them before a potential threat.…”

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Core social motives explain responses to collective action issues

Geiger

Brick

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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Managing collective action issues such as pandemics and climate change requires major social and behavioral change. Dominant approaches to addressing these issues center around information provision and financial incentives to shift behavior, yet, these approaches are rarely effective without integrating insights from psychological research on motivation. By accurately characterizing human motives, social scientists can identify when and why individuals engage, and facilitate behavior change and public engagement. Here, we use the core social motives model to sort social psychological theories into five fundamental social motives: to Belong, Understand, Control, self-Enhance, and Trust. We explain how each motive can improve or worsen collective action issues, and how this framework can be further developed towards a comprehensive social psychological perspective to collective action issues.

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confidence: 99%

Core social motives explain responses to collective action issues

Geiger

Brick

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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Narcissism and Pro-Environmental Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Self-Monitoring, Environmental Control and Attitudes

Dîrțu

Prundeanu

2023

Sustainability

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The need to protect and preserve the environment is an important concern, and the behavioral change in order to obtain behaviors positively oriented towards the environment is sometimes difficult to achieve. There are multiple factors that influence people’s actions against the environment, but individualistic and egocentric tendencies (i.e., grandiose and vulnerable narcissism) may negatively impact pro-environmental behavior. This article expands existing research by providing a closer look at the mechanisms by which individuals with grandiose and vulnerable narcissistic tendencies self-monitor, make attributions about environmental problems, and embrace the new ecological paradigm, as well as their pro-environmental behaviors. Using a convenience sample (N = 945), two mediation models were tested to assess the effect of narcissism on pro-environmental behavior, mediated by self-monitoring, environmental control, and environmental attitudes. Results indicated that both grandiose and vulnerable narcissism negatively correlated with environmental control, but only grandiose narcissism negatively correlated with environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior. Furthermore, mediation analyses results revealed that only environmental control significantly mediated the relationship between narcissism types and pro-environmental behavior. The discussion focuses on the implications of narcissistic features on pro-environmental behavior. Ecological campaigns should aim to increase individual control and include strategies that stimulate narcissistic individuals to self-enhance and recognize their responsibility when they produce significant changes in the environment.

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Environmentally Friendly Behaviors of Recreationists and Natural Area Tourists: A Comparative Perspective

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This study measures the impacts of environmental concern and environmental altruism on eco-friendly behaviors, and the impacts of environmentally friendly behaviors on nature-based tourism behaviors and ecologically friendly purchasing behaviors. The study sample included a population of tourists and recreationists in three different destinations in Turkey. Data were obtained from questionnaires and were analyzed using a Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM). In addition, a one-way ANOVA test was performed to show the differences in common questions for the three destinations. The findings identified that the independent variables positively affected participants’ environmentally friendly behaviors and purchasing behaviors. Visitors who participated in hiking on Mount Ida displayed more environmental attitudes than visitors in the other areas in all variables other than the ‘environmentally friendly behavior’ scale. Among participants, while environmental tourism behavior was the highest variable, environmental concern was the lowest variable. Study participants displayed environmentally friendly behavior in Köprülü Canyon at a higher level than in the other two destinations. The types of activities performed during the journey were considered in recognizing the environment, taking note of environmental problems and acting.

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Perceptions of Self-Motives and Environmental Activists’ Motives for Pro-Environmental Behavior

Cited by 4 publications

References 41 publications

Core social motives explain responses to collective action issues

Core social motives explain responses to collective action issues

Narcissism and Pro-Environmental Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Self-Monitoring, Environmental Control and Attitudes

Environmentally Friendly Behaviors of Recreationists and Natural Area Tourists: A Comparative Perspective

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