Determining the role of eudaimonic values in conservation behavior

Winkler-Schor, Sophia; Riper, Carena J. van; Landon, Adam C.; Keller, Rose

doi:10.1111/cobi.13622

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“…These authors showed that PEB spanned the dimensions of conservation lifestyles, environmental citizenship, social environmentalism, and land stewardship behaviors, while also indicating that careful attention should be paid to the structure of PEB as a first- or second-order factor model. Given the importance of socialization in both PEB and human-place bonding ( Kyle and Chick, 2007 ), social environmentalism has also been identified as an important aspect of place attachment, alongside actions that are relevant to public and private domains ( Landon et al, 2018 ; van Riper et al, 2019 ; Winkler-Schor et al, 2020 ; Golebie et al, 2021 ).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pride and guilt as place-based affective antecedents to pro-environmental behavior

Shipley

Riper²,

Stewart³

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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The interrelated concepts of place attachment and place meaning are antecedents to pro-environmental behavior and essential for supporting decisions that foster relationships between people and places. Previous research has argued that affect is instrumental in conceptualizing place-related phenomena but has not yet been considered in terms of discrete emotions. We disentangled the empirical relationships between concepts of place and the emotions of pride and guilt to understand how they collectively contributed to individuals’ decisions about environmental sustainability. Specifically, we conducted an online survey of residents living in the Midwestern US and asked questions about their attachments to places and their place-related behavior. We then tested a latent variable path model with first- and second-order factors that shaped the behavioral intentions of survey respondents, as well as evaluated the psychometric properties of a place meaning scale, to uncover the range of reasons why human-nature relationships were formed. Our findings show that multiple place meanings predicted place attachment, which in turn predicted the discrete emotions of pride and guilt. Place attachment, pride, and guilt positively correlated with pro-environmental behavior. We also observed that the relationships between multi-dimensional conceptualizations of place attachment and behavioral intentions were partially mediated by pride but not guilt, as hypothesized in response to the broaden and build theory of positive emotions. This study develops theoretical insights to clarify how cognitive-emotional bonding can lead people to behave in more environmentally friendly ways.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pride and guilt as place-based affective antecedents to pro-environmental behavior

Shipley

Riper²,

Stewart³

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…Positive impacts of stewardship on entity integrity benefit people because they maintain nature's potential to provide positive contributions (Brauman et al., 2020), but these benefits are often intangible to the stewards themselves. Importantly, stewardship can have direct positive impacts on the quality of life of a steward via eudaimonia—satisfaction derived from acting righteously (Pritchard et al., 2020; Winkler‐Schor et al., 2020). Thus, relational norms that make stewardship feel rewarding can motivate actions with positive impacts on entities of nature (Chan et al., 2016; Richardson, Passmore, et al., 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Rethinking individual relationships with entities of nature

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Recognizing variation in human–nature relationships across different contexts, entities of nature and individual people is central to an equitable management of nature and its contributions to people, and to design effective strategies for encouraging and guiding more sustainable human behaviour. We complement the broader Intergovernmental Science‐Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) conceptual framework by zooming in from relationships between people and nature to individual relationships with entities of nature (IREN), and introduce a new typology that categorizes those relationships based on individual attitude, behavioural preference and behaviour towards an entity. These three dimensions illustrate if an individual perceives the entity to provide mainly positive, negative or no contributions; prefers to have a mainly positive, negative or no impact on the entity; and performs mainly actions with positive, negative or no impacts on the entity. The IREN typology defines 17 overarching relationship types, including not only types where attitude, behavioural preference and behaviour are all negative (intolerance), all neutral (indifference) or all positive (stewardship), but also types where the valence of some dimensions diverges. Among those, we integrate and redefine established types like tolerance, and introduce new ones like ambivalent opposition, which is highly relevant for the management of overabundant or invasive species. Combining attitude, behavioural preference and behaviour to categorize different IREN types can help detect inequalities in the benefits and detriments individual people receive from different entities, and signal societal conflict potential or misalignment of behaviour with conservation goals. Combining those three dimensions also indicates the relative importance of goal‐oriented motives like the desire to optimize an entity's perceived contributions, moral motives like the desire to act righteously and implementation barriers preventing individuals from acting according to their preference. By adding an individual‐ and entity‐specific perspective, the IREN framework and typology can encourage more equitable approaches to managing the benefits and detriments people derive from nature, and assist the development of more effective strategies for aligning human behaviour with conservation and sustainability goals.

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“…A person's values and judgements will be influenced by a multitude of factors, including age, gender, race, class, wealth and other elements of their social, cultural, political and geographic context (e.g. Winkler-Schor et al, 2020). These in turn may determine research interests and outputs, including motivations for engaging in conservation messaging (Neely & Nguse, 2015).…”

Section: Be Reflexivementioning

confidence: 99%