A structural model of environmental attitudes and behaviour

Grob, Alexander

doi:10.1016/0272-4944(95)90004-7

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“…In tourism, it has been argued repeatedly that there is a link between environmental attitudes and behaviour (Miller, 2003), although only little evidence of its nature is provided. Other studies on responsible environmental behaviour report strong predictive links between various attitudes and specific environmentally responsible action (Axelrod & Lehman, 1993;Grob, 1995;Nilsson & Küller, 2000). Research in environmental psychology suggests that such links may be rather indirect in nature, and strongly influenced by situational factors, psychological variables, perception of personal responsibility, and knowledge of 'green' products (Bamberg, 2003;Barr, 2003;Hammitt et al, 1995) resulting in an 'intention to act'.…”

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A Quasi-experimental Method for Testing the Effectiveness of Ecolabel Promotion

Reiser

Simmons

2005

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Despite the existence of tourism ecolabels for more than 10 years, tourists' decision making is still only marginally influenced by such labels and it appears that sustainability does not feature much in tourists' general consumption behaviour. However, two recent studies found that tourists' attitudes towards the Green Globe 21 (GG21) ecolabel in New Zealand were positive and the surveyed tourists appeared to have a high awareness of sustainability issues. Based on these findings, a quasiexperiment was conducted in the Christchurch Visitor Information Centre (CVIC) (main tourist hub of South Island) to investigate whether tourists' positive attitudes towards ecolabels would result in increased observable interest of GG21 ecolabelled products. The purpose of this paper is to describe the complex quasi-experimental methodology that has been developed in an attempt to get further insight into tourist behaviour related to ecolabelled tourist products. During May and June 2003 the impact of a promotional campaign on tourists' information search behaviour in the CVIC was tested. Observations of tourists and measurement of brochure up-take showed no increased interest in the ecolabel promotion campaign or the GG21 labelled products in the CVIC. The experimental methodology demonstrated that positive attitudes towards ecolabels are an unreliable predictor of responsible environmental tourist behaviour.

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“…There is, however, scant information available on what exactly constitutes a 'supportive' environment in the tourism context. Most studies exploring the predictors of responsible environmental behaviour focus on traditional 'green' behaviours such as recycling (Barr, 2003) or private car use (Grob, 1995;Nilsson & Küller, 2000).…”

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A Quasi-experimental Method for Testing the Effectiveness of Ecolabel Promotion

Reiser

Simmons

2005

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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“…Social psychology literature has revealed the influence of personal human values on environmental attitudes (Grob 1995;Milfont, Duckitt, and Wagner 2010). Thus, social adaptation theory argues that values are a type of social cognition that functions to facilitate adaptation to environment (Homer and Kahle 1988).…”

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The antecedent role of personal environmental values in the relationships among trust in companies, information processing and risk perception

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Navarro

Llorens-Monzonís

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Journal of Risk Research

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“…From a theoretical and societal perspective, it is interesting to link the present findings to the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1991) and its applications to conservational behavior (e.g., Grob, 1995). As alluded to earlier, the theory states that people's perceptions of behavioral control have effects on their intention to engage in goal-directed behavior.…”

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“…Granted, there is a fair amount of research on the notion of reduced behavioral control as an impediment of various behaviors (e.g., Ajzen & Madden, 1986;Bandura, 1986;Maier & Seliman, 1976), including pro-environmental behavior (e.g., Axelrod & Lehman, 1993;Grob, 1995;Stern & Oskamp, 1987;Tanner, 1999). However, there is a very little research which directly assesses noise in social dilemmas beyond the dyad, and-as far as we know-there is no research on the effects of the experience of noise.…”

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No control, no drive: how noise may undermine conservation behavior in a commons dilemma

Brucks

Lange

2007

Euro J Social Psych

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Sometimes people may no longer engage in conservational behavior (e.g., to reduce emissions) because their attempts to do so have been thwarted by ''negative noise'', or external forces that may cause otherwise cooperative intentions to translate into non-cooperative action (e.g., strikes prevented to commute by public transport rather than by car). The purpose of the present research is to examine whether experiences with negative noise in a commons dilemma may undermine conservational motivation and behavior, even in a subsequent commons dilemma that is free of noise. Participants first interacted in a commons dilemma task-with noise versus without noise-in which the common pool was sustained versus deteriorating. Afterwards, participants were involved in an identical second task in the same pool size condition but noise-free for everybody. Consistent with hypotheses, participants who faced noise and a deteriorating resource in the first task exhibited lower levels of conservation in the second task than did participants who were always acting free of noise. This pattern was mediated by a reduced motivation to preserve the common pool, suggesting that the experience of noise in combination with a decline in collective resources may especially undermine cooperative motivation and behavior. Copyright # 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.One of the major environmental challenges that societies face are resource management problems or commons dilemmas. These are situations in which a group shares a common resource (e.g., fish, water, forest or clean air) the individual member can harvest from. It is a dilemma between self-interest and collective interest in that the group interest requires moderate harvests to avoid depletion, but personal interests may induce the individual members to harvest excessively (e.g., Gifford & Hine, 1997;Hardin, 1968;Kopelman, Weber, & Messick, 2002, Ostrom, 1990.Past research on the commons dilemma has revealed that many people tend to reduce their consumption when resources are in decline in order to preserve them from being depleted (e.g., Kramer, McClintock, & Messick, 1986;Messick, Wilke, Brewer, Kramer, Zemke, & Lui, 1983;Samuelson, Messick, Rutte, & Wilke, 1984;Wilke, 1991). In a parallel manner, scholars of conservational psychology often observe a general pro-environmental attitude in society (e.g., Dunlap, Van Liere, Mertig, & Jones, 2000;Stern, 2000a). Why then, one may ask, does environmental concern in some cases fail to correspond to actual behavior? In the present study, we take a closer look at a novel and important answer to this basic-and socially urgent-question (e.g., Gardner & Stern, 1996;Scott & Willits, 1994): The ubiquitous presence of noise in situations of social-ecological interdependence.By using the broad concept of noise (see Van Lange, Ouwerkerk, & Tazelaar, 2002) in the present research, we advance the idea that external forces beyond people's intention and control (i.e., noise) may sometimes unfavorably affect our environmental behavior and lead to out...

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A structural model of environmental attitudes and behaviour

Cited by 389 publications

References 18 publications

A Quasi-experimental Method for Testing the Effectiveness of Ecolabel Promotion

A Quasi-experimental Method for Testing the Effectiveness of Ecolabel Promotion

The antecedent role of personal environmental values in the relationships among trust in companies, information processing and risk perception

No control, no drive: how noise may undermine conservation behavior in a commons dilemma

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