The Role of Behavioral Costs and Social Desirability as Predictors of Environmental Attitudes and Conservation Behavior: An Analysis on Aggregate and on Individual Data LevelSummary: A questionnaire for the measurement of environmentally relevant ...
Zusammenfassung. Das Skalensystem zur Erfassung des Umweltbewußtseins (SEU, frühere Versionen s. Schahn & Holzer, 1990; Schahn, 1996) wurden hinsichtlich des Itempools und in Bezug auf die erfaßten Dimensionen überarbeitet und in mehreren Untersuchungen ...
Development of an environmental knowledge measure: An application of the MRCML modelAbstract. Although accredited as a theoretically influential predictor of ecological behavior, environmental knowledge is generally neglected as a methodological issue. ...
Summary: The General Ecological Behavior (GEB) scale was developed for cross-cultural applications (Kaiser & Wilson, in press). The present study compares ecological behavior in Sweden and Switzerland. Questionnaire data from 247 Swedish and 445 Swiss ...
Summary: The present paper explores whether differential endorsement probabilities are related to the behavioral consequences of certain environments, rather than being solely indicative of method bias. One's living environment is among the more salient ...
This paper cross-culturally tests an extended version of the planned behavior theory. Using cross-sectional surveys of 801 university students from four different cultures (high vs. low individualism, and English- vs. Spanish-speaking), we expected ...
Pleasurable experiences in nature are suspected to promote a personal connection with nature, and subsequently, nature conservation in individuals. Using an Internet-based survey employing a convenience sample of the general population (N = 1,309), we ...
Environmental problems have their origins in human behavior, and as a result, any solution to environmental issues will require changes in behavior. While many disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences offer important perspectives on the behaviors ...
Environmental psychology is by definition one of the main disciplines for individual behavioral change with regard to sustainability issues. However, it has not been as visible or successful as one could wish. We present a four-step process that describes ...
Our dominant way of living is not sustainable and our activities as private individuals and households directly and indirectly account for a large and increasing share of total environmental impacts. These impacts are related to the structure as well as ...
For many societies, the prime political strategy for mitigating climate change has been to improve the efficiency of technology (e.g., cars, light bulbs, and refrigerators). However, World Bank data suggest that the per-capita energy consumption of ...
In my commentary on the papers in this special section of European Psychologist, I note that the focus of past environmental psychology on changing the human environment to increase people’s well-being has in contemporary environmental psychology been ...