Relationships between personal values, micro-contextual factors and residents’ pro-environmental behaviors: An explorative study

Ling, Maoliang; Xu, Lin

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.104697

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“…In addition, the gap becomes greater when level of education is higher. Ling and Xu (2020) 3 | METHOD…”

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Promoting sustainable development: The impact of differences in cultural values on residents' pro‐environmental behaviors

Qiao

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Sustainable Development

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Pro-Environmental Behavior (PEB) of residents can greatly alleviate the threat of environmental pollution to human living environment and promote sustainable development of the society. Cross-cultural studies show that there are significant differences in PEB among countries with different cultural backgrounds. Even within the same country or region, individual cultural values are not identical. So, can various individual cultural values impact PEB differently? To answer this question, this paper investigates the mechanism on how cultural value differences affect residents' PEB, based on Hofstede's cultural model. Following an analysis of 475 questionnaires from residents, the results show that Hofstede's five dimensions of cultural value can significantly impact public-and/or private-sphere PEB. Among them, collectivism and long-term orientation of residents have positive effects on both public-and privatesphere PEB and uncertainty avoidance has a negative impact. Besides, masculinity only affects the public-sphere PEB, and power distance affects neither private-nor public-sphere PEB. In addition, three social-demographic characteristics including gender, age, and educational level have a significant moderating effect on the relationship between cultural values and PEB. These findings can provide useful recommendations for policy makers to draft PEB guidelines and incentive policies based on the differences in cultural values of their residents.

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“…In addition, the gap becomes greater when level of education is higher. Ling and Xu (2020) 3 | METHOD…”

Section: The Moderating Effect Of Social-demographic Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting sustainable development: The impact of differences in cultural values on residents' pro‐environmental behaviors

Qiao

et al. 2020

Sustainable Development

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“…Previous studies have mainly focused on the effects of individual psychological variables, socio-demographic factors, and external contextual factors on PEB as well as PEBI (D. Li et al, 2019 ; Steg and Vlek, 2009 ). With regard to individual psychological factors, such as personal values ( Ling and Xu, 2020 ; Mi et al, 2020 ), environmental awareness ( Young et al, 2015 ), subjective norms ( Ru et al, 2018 ), control beliefs ( Park et al, 2020 ), and self-identity ( Gkargkavouzi et al, 2019 ), have received attention; socio-demographic factors, such as gender (J. Li et al, 2019 ), age ( Hughes et al, 2019 ),and educational attainment ( Meyer, 2015 ) were paid attention to.…”

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How does COVID-19 emergency cognition influence public pro-environmental behavioral intentions? An affective event perspective

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Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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Social impacts and serious damages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in public introspection on the issue of ecological environmental protection. However, whether the public cognition of COVID-19 can promote pro-environmental behavioral intentions (PEBI) has not yet been determined; this is crucial for studying the ecological significance of the pandemic. Based on the affective events theory (AET), this study investigated the mechanism by which COVID-19 emergency cognition influences public PEBI. Following an analysis of 873 public questionnaires, the results reveal that public cognition of COVID-19 emergency can significantly promote PEBI. Among them, the effect of emergency coping is stronger than that of emergency relevance. Besides, the positive and negative environmental affective reactions aroused by COVID-19 pandemic play a mediating role between the emergency cognition and PEBI. Moreover, the positive environmental affective reactions show a stronger positive effect on household-sphere PEBI. However, the negative environmental affective reactions are more prominent in promoting public-sphere PEBI. This research aims to bridge a research gap by establishing a link between COVID-19 pandemic and PEBI. The findings can provide useful recommendations for policymakers to find the opportunity behind the COVID-19 emergency to promote public PEBI.

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“…Statistically significant differences in the frequency of PEBs for the variable "gender" were found only for nine PEBs, of which three PEBs belong to the mobility group and three PEBs belong to the waste-management group. This result is rather unexpected, since in other countries, for example, in Spain [54], France [55], and China [56], women demonstrate more active proecological behavior.…”

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“…Despite the fact that the obtained results cannot be directly compared with the parallel results of surveys in other countries presented in the literature, since they were obtained in different macro and micro contexts [56], it can be noted that composting kitchen waste is unpopular in Russia as much as in cities like Tokyo, Bangkok, and Seoul [25]. On the contrary, energy-saving practices are the most popular both in Russia and in all three Asian cities examined with the same methodology.…”

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Barriers of Consumer Behavior for the Development of the Circular Economy: Empirical Evidence from Russia

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This paper contributes to the literature on sustainable consumption by in-depth analysis of the factors affecting the probability of 57 different practices of proenvironmental behavior (PEBs) in Russia. The set of studied PEBs includes not only popular energy-saving and waste-management practices but also more circular patterns of plastic consumption, shopping, and city mobility. To study real and potential barriers to greening consumer behavior models, we conducted a survey of 623 respondents using a questionnaire developed based on a comparative analysis of similar studies conducted in other countries. The processing of the survey results was carried out using nonparametric statistics due to the absence of a normal distribution of the sample for most of the studied characteristics. The results of the study revealed that the main barriers to sustainable consumption in Russia are the lack of appropriate infrastructure as well as a lack of knowledge. Infrastructural barriers in some situations makes sustainable consumer behavior impossible or inconvenient (in this case, preference is given to other types of consumption), or in some cases necessitates spending additional time and money (then sustainable consumer behavior is not completely denied but practiced less often).

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Relationships between personal values, micro-contextual factors and residents’ pro-environmental behaviors: An explorative study

Cited by 53 publications

References 38 publications

Promoting sustainable development: The impact of differences in cultural values on residents' pro‐environmental behaviors

Promoting sustainable development: The impact of differences in cultural values on residents' pro‐environmental behaviors

How does COVID-19 emergency cognition influence public pro-environmental behavioral intentions? An affective event perspective

Barriers of Consumer Behavior for the Development of the Circular Economy: Empirical Evidence from Russia

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