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Pan J, Liu P. Exploring waste separation using an extended theory of planned behavior: a comparison between adults and children. Front Psychol 2024; 15:1337969. [PMID: 38708018 PMCID: PMC11067526 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1337969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2023] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 05/07/2024] Open
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This study applied an extended model of the theory of planed behavior (TPB) to compare the differences in waste separation behavior between children (ages 9 to 12, N = 339) and adults (ages 18 to 66, N = 379). We examined the relations among waste separation attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, knowledge, awareness, intention, and behavior. The results showed waste separation knowledge of children was less than that of adults. Structure equation model results also revealed robust differences between children and adults. For adults, TPB variables (attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control) and knowledge are significantly positively related to their waste separation intention. Meanwhile, perceived behavioral control and intention are positively related to adults' behavior. However, for children, only perceived behavioral control and awareness are positively related to intention, and perceived behavioral control is positively related to behavior. Moreover, the predictive power of the extended TPB model on children's waste separation intention and behavior are lower than those of adults. The different results may be due to children's immature cognitive abilities. This study enhanced the understanding of the different waste separation behavior determinants between children and adults. The findings are useful for developing tailored policies and promoting children's waste separation behavior.
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- Ji Pan
- CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institution of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institution of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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K Church E, A Wilson K, J Dean A. Broadening our understanding of what drives stewardship engagement: Relationships between social capital and willingness to engage in nature stewardship. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2023; 342:118128. [PMID: 37210815 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2022] [Revised: 05/06/2023] [Accepted: 05/07/2023] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Diverse solutions are needed to reduce human impacts on nature. Fostering individual stewardship behaviours that protect, restore, and encourage sustainable use of nature will need to be part of this mix of solutions. A key challenge then is how to increase the uptake of such behaviours. Social capital provides a framework to explore the diverse types of social influences on nature stewardship. We surveyed a representative sample of residents of New South Wales, Australia (n = 3220) to explore how facets of social capital influenced individual willingness to adopt diverse types of stewardship behaviours. Analysis confirmed that parts of social capital differentially influence distinct types of stewardship behaviours including lifestyle, social, on-ground, and citizenship behaviours. All behaviours were positively influenced by perceptions of shared values within social network, and past participation in environmental groups. Yet some components of social capital exhibited mixed associations with each type of stewardship behaviour. For example, collective agency was associated with greater willingness to engage in social, on-ground, and citizenship behaviours, whereas institutional trust was negatively associated with willingness to engage in lifestyle, on-ground and citizenship behaviours. These findings show that social context provides an important foundation for building stewardship engagement.
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- Emma K Church
- School of Food and Agriculture Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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- School of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia.
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- School of Food and Agriculture Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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Hameed R, Rehaman N, Shoaib M, Ibtsam M. Promoting pro-environmental behavior among one belt one road firms' employees through the lens of green human resource practices. Work 2023; 76:1373-1384. [PMID: 37393463 DOI: 10.3233/wor-211442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/03/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The realization of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has opened up new horizons for economic development along with threats to climate change in Pakistan. It has intended to change the social and corporate landscape, which necessitates investigation regarding corporate green HRM practices and employee behaviors of the firms involved. OBJECTIVE This study developed a theoretical framework and investigated the mediating impact of pro-environmental psychological climate (PEPC) between green human resource management (GHRM) and pro-environmental behavior (PEB) of the employees working under CPEC in Pakistan. Therefore, the core intent lies in recognizing those aspects of manipulating the pro-environmental behavior of the employees of the firms involved. METHODS Based on the simple random sampling technique, data was collected from 388 employees using a quantitative approach. SmartPLS was used to analyze the data. RESULTS The findings suggest that GHRM practices have an impact on organizations' pro-environmental psychological climate and employees' pro-environmental behavior. Furthermore, the pro-environmental psychological climate encourages employees to engage in environmentally friendly behaviors within Pakistani organizations working under CPEC. CONCLUSION GHRM has proved to be a vital instrument for attaining organizational sustainability and pro-environmental behavior. The original study results are particularly valuable for employees of the firms working under CPEC as they motivate them to engage in more sustainability solutions. The study findings add to the body of GHRM practices and strategic management, and thus policymakers can better postulate, align, and exercise GHRM practices.
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- Rizwana Hameed
- Institute of Business and Management, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
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Effects of personal environmental awareness and environmental concern on employees' voluntary pro-environmental behavior: a mediation analysis in emerging countries. BALTIC JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT 2022. [DOI: 10.1108/bjm-05-2022-0195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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PurposeSuccessful stimulation of employee engagement in pro-environmental behavior (PEB) at work can reduce organizational environmental footprint and boost its green performance. The aim of this paper is to investigate the individual factors that may promote such behavior at work, offering a complex model with mediating relationships not studied before.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper data was collected through a survey of 331 bank employees from different banks in Kazakhstan and Ecuador. Structural equation modeling was used to test the relationships between the different constructs.FindingsThe results identified that environmental values and attitudes mediate the relationship between (1) personal environmental awareness and (2) environmental concern and employees' voluntary PEB at work. Harmonious environmental passion (HEP) mediates the relationship between environmental values and attitudes and employees' voluntary PEB at work.Practical implicationsThis study presents important organizational policymaking implications with regard to organizational greening. The importance of environmental awareness is underlined, guiding managers to offer environmental education and training to the employees with the aim of improving environmental knowledge that may lead to employees' voluntary PEB at work. Also, managers should work on enhancing HEP.Originality/valuePrior literature on this topic is still scarce. This research presents important contributions by discussing how individual antecedents may act as stimuli of employees' voluntary PEB at work in the context of the banking sector in two emerging countries that are often neglected by prior literature.
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Ye W, Li Z, Xu Y. Transmission of environmentally responsible behavior between tourist destination employees and tourists: The role of moral elevation and environmental knowledge. Front Psychol 2022; 13:1027736. [PMID: 36533048 PMCID: PMC9748094 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1027736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2022] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 09/10/2024] Open
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Introduction Tourists' environmental misconduct is the primary reason for the environmental destruction that tourist sites experience; nevertheless, their environmentally responsible behavior is also a major push for the improvement of the environment. The main goal of this study is to induce tourists to adopt proactive environmental responsibility behaviors. Methods A total of 455 valid questionnaires were obtained from China and analyzed using multiple linear regression. Results The findings of this study indicate employees' environmentally responsible behavior (E-ERB) in tourist destinations has a positive impact on tourists' environmentally responsible behavior (T-ERB). In the mediating variable of moral elevation, the correlation between E-ERB and T-ERB is mediated by elevating emotions and views of humanity. And desire to be a better person did not play a mediating role in the relationship between E-ERB and T-ERB. Additionally, environmental knowledge moderates the transmission path of the impact of E-ERB and T-ERB via elevating emotions. With high environmental knowledge, the transmission path of the impact of employees' environmentally responsible behavior of the tourist destination on tourists' environmentally responsible behavior via elevating emotions will be enhanced. Discussion We propose a new perspective to explain the transmission mechanism between employees' environmentally responsible behavior and tourists' environmentally responsible behavior in tourism destinations, which will help to expand our understanding of the relationship between employees' behavior and tourists' behavior. We expect our study to spark more exploration of the contagion of positive behavior in the field of environmental psychology.
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- Weijiao Ye
- College of Business Administration, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, China
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- College of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Anxi College of Tea Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fujian, China
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Ding Y, Zhao M, Li Z, Xia B, Atutova Z, Kobylkin D. Impact of Education for Sustainable Development on Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior in Protected Areas. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:ijerph19159769. [PMID: 35955131 PMCID: PMC9368064 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19159769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/06/2022] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Education for sustainable development (ESD) of protected areas is proposed to deal with global climate change and biodiversity conversation. It focuses on the "quality education" and "protection" of the United Nations' sustainable development goals (UN SDGs), not only taking protected areas as the education place, but also as the theme and content of education. Based on cognitive-behavior theory and social emotional learning theory, this study constructs a "cognitive-emotion-behavior" dimension framework of ESD in protected areas, selecting Potatso National Park in Yunnan as a case study. Based on 529 valid visitor questionnaires, this study uses structural equation modeling to verify theoretical hypotheses, and analyzes the impact of ESD in protected areas on public cognition, emotion, and behavior. The results show that: (1) Cognitive and emotional factors jointly drive the behavioral intentions of ESD in protected areas, and social-emotional factors are slightly higher than cognitive factors; (2) Environmental knowledge, personal norms, nature connectedness, and places attachment positively affects behavioral intentions; (3) Indigenous knowledge has an impact on behavioral intentions through emotional mediation, and personal norms have an impact on behavioral intentions through direct effects; (4) Gender and visit frequency are important moderating variables in the ESD of protected areas. These conclusions provide the following suggestions for further development of ESD. First, by forming environment-friendly social norms and focusing on the mining and presentation of indigenous knowledge, the behavioral intention can also be enhanced to a certain extent; second, improving people's emotion can also promote people's behavioral intention, especially referring to optimizing nature connectedness, strengthening place attachment, and creating emotional connections; Third, specific groups of people should be taught specifically, and improve the supporting services of ESD.
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- Yan Ding
- School of Geography and Ecotourism, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China
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- Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 664033 Irkutsk, Russia
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- Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 664033 Irkutsk, Russia
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Yang Y, Zhu Y, Wang X, Li Y. The Perception of Environmental Information Disclosure on Rural Residents' Pro-Environmental Behavior. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:7851. [PMID: 35805510 PMCID: PMC9265262 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19137851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2022] [Revised: 06/22/2022] [Accepted: 06/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/07/2022]
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Rural residents' pro-environmental behavior plays a critical role in rural environmental governance. This paper examines how the perception of government environmental information disclosure (EID) can promote rural residents' pro-environmental behavior (PEB) using a questionnaire survey. Using Zhejiang province of China as a case study, we designed a four-stage mixed sampling method, which yielded 783 valid responses. We used ordinary least squares (OLS), an ordinal logit model and a mediation effect model to draw our conclusions. The results indicated that the EID had a positive impact on the PEB of rural residents. It is also evident that personal environmental concerns (PECs) play a partially mediating role between EID and PEB. Moreover, the impact of EID on PEB is heterogeneous in terms of residents' age and workplace. This research contributes to insights into the promotion of guiding rural residents' PEB and improving ecological environment management.
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- Yongliang Yang
- School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China; (Y.Y.); (Y.Z.)
- Silk and Fashion Culture Research Center of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China; (Y.Y.); (Y.Z.)
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- School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China; (Y.Y.); (Y.Z.)
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- Fashion Department, DongHai Academy, Collaborative Innovation Center of Port Economy, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
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