To reduce and not to reduce resource consumption? That is two questions

Richetin, Juliette; Perugini, Marco; Conner, Mark; Adjali, Iqbal; Hurling, Robert; Sengupta, Abhijit; Greetham, Danica Vukadinović

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2012.01.003

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“…Due to the phrasing of the survey questions for the present study (i.e., PBC and norms were measured in terms of the health-promoting behavior choice — e.g., “ I feel confident that I could refrain from smoking cigarettes,” but intentions were measured for behavioral engagement — e.g., “ I intend to binge drink in the next month” ), separate models were run for health-promoting behaviors versus risk behaviors. This decision was informed by prior research that has demonstrated the motivational systems (TPB constructs) underlying behavioral abstinence are not simply the inverse of those systems underlying behavior engagement (Richetin, Conner, & Perugini, 2011; Richetin et al, 2012). Conducting the analyses in this way allowed for the examination of the second set of hypotheses, that the relationships between affective constructs and intentions may vary based on behavior type.…”

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Feel good now or regret it later? The respective roles of affective attitudes and anticipated affective reactions for explaining health‐promoting and health risk behavioral intentions

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Gillman

Gardiner

et al. 2019

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Evidence supporting the incorporation of affective constructs, such as affective attitudes and anticipated regret, into theoretical models of health behavior has been mounting in recent years; however, the role of positive anticipated affective reactions (e.g., pride) has been largely unexplored. The purpose of the present investigation was to assess how affective attitudes and anticipated affective reactions (both pride and regret for performing a behavior or not) may provide distinct utility for understanding intentions to perform health-promoting and health risk behaviors over and above cognitive attitudes and other established theoretical constructs from the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Participants (N = 210) were recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to complete a one-time online battery assessing TPB and affective constructs. Self-reported intentions served as the main outcome measure, and hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine the effects of TPB and affective constructs across behaviors. Controlling for TPB constructs, more positive affective attitudes and greater anticipated regret, but not anticipated pride, predicted intentions to engage in future health behaviors. Anticipated affective reactions contributed explanatory variance for intentions to perform health risk behaviors, but anticipated pride and regret were not associated with intentions to perform health risk behaviors. Contributions made via the inclusion of both positively and negatively valence anticipated affective reactions for both action and inaction (performing a behavior or not) across a range of health promoting and health risk behaviors are discussed, as well as implications for future intervention work.

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Feel good now or regret it later? The respective roles of affective attitudes and anticipated affective reactions for explaining health‐promoting and health risk behavioral intentions

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Gillman

Gardiner

et al. 2019

J Applied Social Pyschol

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“…Ajzen [86] developed the theory of planned behavior (TPB) not specifically to explain conservation behaviors, but as a general theory to explain many behaviors. It has been a frequently used theory in conservation psychology research [10,18,87,88]. Notably, Bamberg and Moser [89] used it as the framework for their meta-analysis of pro-environmental behavior.…”

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Synthesizing the Experiments and Theories of Conservation Psychology

Osbaldiston

2013

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Within the field of environmental psychology, there are two distinct bodies of literature. First, there are experimental studies that have evaluated techniques for getting people to perform conservation behaviors. Second, there are theoretical studies that have surveyed people to create some type of theoretical model that explains conservation behaviors. These two types of research almost never overlap. This research project attempts to bridge these two literatures. Specifically, we coded over 100 environmental experiments for the type of treatment that each one employed and the effect size that was reported. Then we mapped the ten leading treatments on to the main components of six leading theoretical models. Our findings indicate that a moderate amount of variance in the effect sizes of the experimental literature is explained by the theoretical models and that one of the strongest predictors of conservation behavior is the situation or context. While we acknowledge the limitations of our method, this research raises a fundamentally important question: Why are our theories somewhat limited at predicting the behavior patterns that we see in our experiments? Are our theories built on the wrong set of psychological constructs, or are our experiments manipulating the wrong set of variables?

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“…Since its launch, the TPB has been used to explore a wide variety of sustainable behaviours and has achieved considerable success. It has been widely applied to sustainable consumption [50], personal positions on sustainable development [51], green buying behaviour [52], and safety and health [53,54]. Clearly, the TPB is a useful and powerful framework for supporting studies related to sustainable behaviour, there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate that it is successful in the study of most sustainable behaviours [55,56], and this approach can be applied to most behaviours [57].…”

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Research on Farmers’ Willingness of Land Transfer Behavior Based on Food Security

Wang

Liu

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In China, the current household contract responsibility system has been unable to adapt to the commercialization and marketization of rural cultivated land. Rural land transfer is allowed by the government as a supplement to the household contract responsibility system. However, in 2016, the rural land circulating in China accounted for only 35% of the total national rural land area and there were many problems with the process of land circulation. Therefore, the rural revitalization strategy in China must focus on how to promote rural land circulation with high efficiency to ensure food security in China and high quality to realize the sustainable development of rural land resources. In this study, based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), two structural equation models (SEM) for rural land inflow and rural land outflow were used to compare and examine the key factors affecting farmers’ intention to engage in rural land circulation in Shandong Province. Data analysed from a survey of 549 farmers showed that behavioural attitudes, subjective norms, and perceptual behavioural control have a significant impact on farmers’ intention to engage in rural land circulation, and only subjective norms had a negative impact on the land inflow intention model. Behavioural attitudes had the greatest impact in the two models, but the impact paths of the two models were different. In the rural land inflow intention model, the intrinsic value of cultivated land is important to farmers, whereas in the rural land outflow model, the economic rationality of transferring land was mainly considered. The importance of perceptual behavioural control in the rural land outflow model was greater than it was in the rural land inflow model. The results of this research can provide a reference for formulating government policies, achieving the sustainable development of land resources, and guaranteeing food supply.

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To reduce and not to reduce resource consumption? That is two questions

Cited by 56 publications

References 47 publications

Feel good now or regret it later? The respective roles of affective attitudes and anticipated affective reactions for explaining health‐promoting and health risk behavioral intentions

Feel good now or regret it later? The respective roles of affective attitudes and anticipated affective reactions for explaining health‐promoting and health risk behavioral intentions

Synthesizing the Experiments and Theories of Conservation Psychology

Research on Farmers’ Willingness of Land Transfer Behavior Based on Food Security

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