A Household Is Not a Person: Consistency of Pro-Environmental Behavior in Adult Couples and the Accuracy of Proxy-Reports

Seebauer, Sebastian; Fleiß, Jürgen; Schweighart, Markus

doi:10.1177/0013916516663796

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“…On a related point, whereas electricity consumption was-for practical reasons-assessed on the household level, ecological lifestyle was measured for individuals (i.e., the person holding the contract with the EPC). As couples living in one household are sometimes found to report quite differential engagement in specific environmentally protective activities (see, for example, Seebauer, Fleiß, & Schweighart, 2016), this discrepancy in level of measurement creates some uncertainty regarding the actual magnitude of the relation between people's ecological behavior and electricity consumption (Yang, Shipworth, & Huebner, 2015). However, it is likely to have deflated rather than increased the correlation of interest.…”

Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Capturing the Environmental Impact of Individual Lifestyles: Evidence of the Criterion Validity of the General Ecological Behavior Scale

Arnold

Kibbe

Hartig

et al. 2017

Environment and Behavior

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Do behavioral measures of ecological lifestyles reflect actual environmental impact? Three convenience samples of German adults (N = 881) completed such a measure, the General Ecological Behavior (GEB) scale. Their household electricity consumption was self-reported (Study 1), assessed by a smart-meter (Study 2), or reported by the power company (Study 3). The latter two studies controlled for income, which can boost consumption just as it opens possibilities for behaving ecologically. Within and across studies, analyses revealed a negative association between self-reported ecological behavior and electricity consumption (−.18 ≤ rs ≤ −.22), even with adjustment for income. Furthermore, customers in a green electricity program reported more ecological engagement and consumed one third less electricity than did regular customers. These results indicate the criterion

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Capturing the Environmental Impact of Individual Lifestyles: Evidence of the Criterion Validity of the General Ecological Behavior Scale

Arnold

Kibbe

Hartig

et al. 2017

Environment and Behavior

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“…Although most policy measures related to energy efficiency affect households as units without much regard to their structure, the make-up of the household and the differing beliefs and behaviors of their members are determinants of the actual energy consumed or conserved by the household. Household members may even engage in conflicting actions depending on their preferences and everyday activities, thus it could be important to be aware of the behaviors and values of individuals living within the same household (Seebauer, Fleiß, & Schweighart, 2017). As of now, related studies seem to have mainly focused on differences and similarities between members of families and couples living in one household (Longhi, 2013;Seebauer et al, 2017;Thøgersen & Grønhøj, 2010).…”

Section: The Role Of Households Shared Housing and Student Householdsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, looking at the broader literature, as household energy use cannot be determined based on a single person's actions, it should be rather examined based on the actions of other household members (Seebauer et al, 2017). Also, as we don't know whether influence behaviors have the intended resultthat is, whether the person intended to be influenced will act in accordance with the message of the influencerdeterminants of success of this type of action could also be examined.…”

Section: Limitations and Directions For Further Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who is more likely to influence others? A value-based approach to pro-environmental social influence behavior (Preprint)

Kis

Verschoor

Sargisson

2019

Preprint

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Biospheric values can promote, and egoistic values inhibit, a broad range of pro-environmental behaviors. However, people who strongly endorse egoistic values might undertake pro-environmental behavior involving attempts to influence others. We used a questionnaire to assess the relationship between values and the likelihood that with 193 students will attempt to influence their housemates to engage in pro-environmental behavior. To measure this type of influence behavior, we developed and used the Environmental Social Influence Behavior (E-SIB) questionnaire. Both biospheric and egoistic values promoted influence behaviors. Biospheric values more strongly predicted the likelihood of social-influence actions as egoistic values decreased, except when egoistic values were high. We discuss the connections between values and social-influence behaviors, and current knowledge on the role of egoistic values in environmental actions.

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“…In the field of environmental behavior, Seebauer et al (2017) revealed the proxy-response bias of household energy conservation and pro-environmental values. In their examination of travel behavior, bias was higher for shopping or leisure trips than work trips.…”

Section: Proxy Response In General Surveysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inferring proxy response in household travel surveys with unknown completer using a group-based choice model

2019

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A proxy response is often accepted for household travel surveys to reduce the survey cost and increase the sample size, but proxy-response biases may be introduced into the sample data. To investigate and correct the bias, completer information for the survey is important, but such information is not always available in practice. This study proposes a novel model that can be applicable in situations where completer information is unavailable. The method introduces group-decision modeling in analyzing the response choices of the household travel survey, where the survey response is considered to be a task allocation among household members. The proposed model can infer the probability of proxy response and the proxy-response bias of trip-related records without completer information. The potential of the proposed model was confirmed by application to a household travel survey in Japan. The inferred probability of the proxy response and the inferred bias without completer data demonstrated surprisingly similar results to the existing study with actual proxy-response data. Specifically, the model inferred a high probability of proxy response in young adults and a low proxy probability in middle-aged females, and the model inferred the proxy-response bias that female proxy respondents in the middle-aged group report lower trip rates than self-respondents. This method will be valuable not only in travel surveys, but also in the general research and practice of social surveys.

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A Household Is Not a Person: Consistency of Pro-Environmental Behavior in Adult Couples and the Accuracy of Proxy-Reports

Cited by 58 publications

References 39 publications

Capturing the Environmental Impact of Individual Lifestyles: Evidence of the Criterion Validity of the General Ecological Behavior Scale

Capturing the Environmental Impact of Individual Lifestyles: Evidence of the Criterion Validity of the General Ecological Behavior Scale

Who is more likely to influence others? A value-based approach to pro-environmental social influence behavior (Preprint)

Inferring proxy response in household travel surveys with unknown completer using a group-based choice model

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