Personal norms and pro-environmental binning behaviour of visitors in national parks: the development of a conceptual framework

Esfandiar, Kourosh; Pearce, Joanna; Dowling, Ross

doi:10.1080/02508281.2019.1580936

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“…An explanation to this could be that the perceived moral obligations to the environment itself was not strong enough for moderate smartphone usage children to undertake proenvironmental behaviors, but through self-resilience from perceived behavioral control, pro-environmental behaviors were attained. Therefore, personal norms could only affect pro-environmental behaviors through the mediating variable of perceived behavioral control [24,31]. Findings also suggested that perceived behavioral control was a major predictive variable affecting pro-environmental behaviors (i.e.…”

Section: Moderate Smartphone Usage Children Groupmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…This study was based on a substantial body of literature demonstrating the cognitive and psychological influence on pro-environmental behavior research [24,35,36]. Therefore, this study specifically sought to measure three key dimensions: (1) perceived behavioral control, (2) personal norms, and (3) social norms that were considered influential to pro-environmental behavior [24,26,39]. This research adopted the self-administered questionnaire survey method, which comprised of background and psychological variables developed according to the three key dimensions identified earlier.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Perceived behavioral control is related to an individual's perceived ease or difficulty of performing personal capabilities to control external challenges [22]. Whereas personal norms refer to an individual's perceived moral obligations when taking an action; it is a kind of environmental self-awareness and self-discipline, which is believed to be associated with the generation of pro-environmental behavior [23,24,25]. On the other hand, external attributions are causes of behavior result from some situations or events outside a person's control.…”

Section: Conceptual Framework and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Personal norms influence the perceived behavioral control of non-long hours of smartphone used children [24,26]. Hypothesis 9 (H9).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Determinants of pro-environmental behavior among excessive smartphone usage children and moderate smartphone usage children in Taiwan

Fang

Liu

et al. 2020

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Background: Although there are evidences linking the relationships between smartphone usage with health, stress, and academic performance; however, there is still inadequate knowledge about the influence on proenvironmental behaviors. This study seeks to bridge this gap by adapting the theory of attribution framework to examine the effects of personal norms, social norms, perceived behavioral control on pro-environmental behavior of smartphone usage in children. Methods:A total of 225 children aged between 11 to 12 from eight selected public primary schools at the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park in Taiwan were surveyed. Two distinct groups (excessive versus moderate usage) were purposefully selected for comparison, and of which 96 (42.7%) participants were regarded as excessive smartphone users while the remaining 129 (57.3%) were moderate smartphone users.Results: Findings revealed significant differences between excessive smartphone usage children and moderate smartphone usage children in personal norms (p < 0.001), social norms (p = 0.002), perceived behavioral control (p = 0.001), and pro-environmental behavior (p = 0.001), where moderate smartphone usage children's responses were considerably higher than those of excessive smartphone usage children. Path analysis suggested that the two smartphone usage groups had different pro-environmental behavior paths. For excessive smartphone usage children, findings showed that social norms (β = 0.428, t = 4.096***, p <0.001) had a direct predictive impact on pro-environmental behavior. In contrast, while there was no direct path established between personal norms and pro-environmental behavior (β = 0.177, t = 1.580, p > 0.05), as well as social norms and pro-environmental behavior for moderate smartphone usage children (β = 0.181, t = 1.924, p >0.05), but such a relationship could be developed through the mediating effect of perceived behavioral control (β = 0.497, t = 4.471***, p < 0.001). Conclusions:In conclusion, findings suggested that excessive smartphone usage children lack positive perceived behavioral control, and their pro-environmental behavior could only be predicted through explicit social norms. Whereas, pro-environmental behavior of moderate smartphone usage children were implicitly influenced by personal norms through perceived behavioral control. BackgroundNowadays, smartphones are becoming increasingly popular that have brought many changes to our day-to-day lives, particularly with the ease of access to a vast variety of mobile applications for the purpose of internet

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Section: Moderate Smartphone Usage Children Groupmentioning

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Section: Conceptual Framework and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Personal norms influence the perceived behavioral control of non-long hours of smartphone used children [24,26]. Hypothesis 9 (H9).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Determinants of pro-environmental behavior among excessive smartphone usage children and moderate smartphone usage children in Taiwan

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Liu

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“…Pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) is seen as that behaviour that seeks to minimise the negative impact of actions on the natural and man-made worlds (e.g., minimising resource and energy consumption, nontoxic use of substances and reducing waste production) in a more conscious and responsible way [9]. Pro-environmental behaviour can also be defined as actions of individuals to support the environment or as a type of behaviour that harms as little as possible or even benefits the environment [10].…”

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Are Young People Ready to Have a Pro-Environmental Sustainable Behaviour as Tourists? An Investigation of Towel Reuse Intention

Georgescu

Herman

2020

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Tourism, one of the economic sectors that has experienced great development in recent decades and must face unexpected challenges related to the evolution of the global context, needs a sustainable approach to harmonise its effects and impact on the natural and social environment. The aim of this research was to investigate the pro-environmental behaviour of young tourists in hotels versus at home and the main influencing factors of behavioural intention to reuse towels in hotels. The primary data were collected using a survey that was applied to Romanian young people. Eight hypotheses were formulated and tested through paired samples t-tests, a correlation analysis and a hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Our results showed the higher pro-environmental conduct of young guests at home than in hotels, both through their general behaviour regarding the reduction of resource consumption and through their specific behaviour of reusing towels. Our empirical findings also highlighted that tourists’ behavioural intention to reuse towels was positively influenced by an eco-friendly attitude, pro-environmental past experiences and habits to reuse towels at home. In order to achieve sustainable tourism, hotel management should convince guests to bring their ecological habits with them, and educational institutions should use specific methods of raising awareness among young people about an environmentally friendly attitude.

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Determinants of citizens’ willingness to participate in environmental governance – An empirical study

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Personal norms and pro-environmental binning behaviour of visitors in national parks: the development of a conceptual framework

Cited by 58 publications

References 117 publications

Determinants of pro-environmental behavior among excessive smartphone usage children and moderate smartphone usage children in Taiwan

Determinants of pro-environmental behavior among excessive smartphone usage children and moderate smartphone usage children in Taiwan

Are Young People Ready to Have a Pro-Environmental Sustainable Behaviour as Tourists? An Investigation of Towel Reuse Intention

Determinants of citizens’ willingness to participate in environmental governance – An empirical study

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