Social influence approaches to encourage resource conservation: A meta-analysis

Abrahamse, Wokje; Steg, Linda

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.07.029

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“…Wan et al [55] have suggested that public authorities should position "recycling as a social trend and promote it in the society through encouraging messages from the celebrity personalities and showing the percentage or frequency of the local population performing recycling". It can be a relevant approach in the context of recycling, as Abrahamese and Steg [82] perceived that "socially desirable behaviours could be achieved in issues related to resource conservation by means of social influences, learning and comparison". Wan et al [55] have also suggested that promoting recycling behaviour as a socially desirable trend instead of highlighting its benefits could be an effective strategy.…”

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Predictors of Recycling Intentions among the Youth: A Developing Country Perspective

Halder

Singh²

2018

Recycling

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India is currently facing a mounting challenge related to municipal waste management, due to an increasing urban population, and their high consumption lifestyles. India also has the world's highest number of young people in the 10-24 years age group. The study applied the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) model to predict school students' recycling intentions in Delhi, the capital of India and one of the highest producers of municipal solid wastes in the country. Data were collected from a school in New Delhi and the sample size consisted of 272 students from 9th and 10th grades. The TPB model explained 56% of the variance in the students' intentions to recycling. The predictor 'subjective norm' appeared to have the strongest impact on the students' recycling intentions, followed by 'attitude' and 'perceived behavioural control'. It indicated that social factors are driving the Indian youth's recycling intentions. It is important that the policymakers promote recycling as a social trend in India and provide adequate facilities to the public so that they can participate in recycling activities without facing difficulties. Schools also have a role in increasing students' awareness of recycling and motivating them to participate in household waste management practices.

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Predictors of Recycling Intentions among the Youth: A Developing Country Perspective

Halder

Singh²

2018

Recycling

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“…Studies tend to examine the immediate effects of interventions on behavior, but relatively few have provided follow-ups beyond a couple of weeks (e.g., Abrahamse & Steg, 2013;Staats et al, 2004). Consequently, understanding how to foster durable behavior change and embed new habits, while not a new topic, is relatively underexplored (Verplanken et al 1997;Bamberg, 2006).…”

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Expanding the role for psychology in addressing environmental challenges.

Clayton

Devine‐Wright

Swim

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American Psychologist

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Environmental challenges, though daunting, present an important area for psychologists to apply their knowledge. Psychological theories, research methods, and interventions are essential for examining the questions about human impacts, tendencies, and capacities that are integral to constructing effective responses to these challenges. Although a great deal of relevant research has been done, there is scope for psychologists to be more extensively involved. Following a brief review of existing research, we outline some important new directions. We also highlight 2 key divergences, arguing that psychological research needs to expand beyond a traditional, theory-based and decontextualized approach to environmental issues to incorporate a contextualized or “place-based” approach and a willingness to collaborate in interdisciplinary research teams that focus on specific environmental problems. Suggestions for promoting such interdisciplinary collaborations are reviewed. We encourage psychologists to expand their engagement with important environmental issues through multiple research approaches in order to further their understanding of human behavior, contributions to human well-being, and relevance to other disciplines and to society.

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“…It has been reported that despite a proliferation of social influence approaches for behavior change, there is a lack of systematic research regarding the extent of their contribution and the conditions under which they are most effective [18]. More specifically, most intervention studies do not link the specific social influence mechanisms to the behavior changes, especially non-lab based ones [9], and there is a tendency for real-life interventions to contain several behavior change determinants, without further work to separate out the impacts [12].…”

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Visual Prompts or Volunteer Models: An Experiment in Recycling

Lin

Xiao

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Sustainability

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Successful long-term programs for urban residential food waste sorting are very rare, despite the established urgent need for them in cities for waste reduction, pollution reduction and circular resource economy reasons. This study meets recent calls to bridge policy makers and academics, and calls for more thorough analysis of operational work in terms of behavioral determinants, to move the fields on. It takes a key operational element of a recently reported successful food waste sorting program-manning of the new bins by volunteers-and considers the behavioral determinants involved in order to design a more scalable and cheaper alternative-the use of brightly colored covers with flower designs on three sides of the bin. The two interventions were tested in a medium-scale, real-life experimental set-up that showed that they had statistically similar results: high effective capture rates of 32%-34%, with low contamination rates. The success, low cost and simple implementation of the latter suggests it should be considered for large-scale use. Candidate behavioral determinants are prompts, emotion and knowledge for the yellow bin intervention, and for the volunteer intervention they are additionally social influence, modeling, role clarification, and moderators of messenger type and interpersonal or tailored messaging.

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Social influence approaches to encourage resource conservation: A meta-analysis

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Cited by 637 publications

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Predictors of Recycling Intentions among the Youth: A Developing Country Perspective

Predictors of Recycling Intentions among the Youth: A Developing Country Perspective

Expanding the role for psychology in addressing environmental challenges.

Visual Prompts or Volunteer Models: An Experiment in Recycling

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