Environmental Locus of Control, Sympathy, and Proenvironmental Behavior

Abstract

Geller hypothesized a mediational model of environmentally responsible behavior. Specifically, Geller proposed that “actively caring,” a component of altruism, mediated the relation between environmentally responsible behaviors and personality factors related to self-affirmation (i.e., self-esteem, belonging, and personal control). The present study tested this hypothesis. Participants completed a lengthy questionnaire that assessed their levels of self-esteem, belonging and personal control, dispositional levels of actively caring (i.e., sympathy for others), and environmentally friendly behaviors. Results were largely consistent with Geller’s model. Specifically, sympathy, the proxy measure of actively caring used in this study, mediated the relation between personal control and environmentally friendly behaviors.

Antecedents of willingness to pay for green products

“…One item of pro-environmental behavior and five items of environmental locus of control were removed from the final scale due to their large standardized residuals. The reliability of the measurement was analyzed by Cronbach Alpha, and it resulted in a good validity with each construct reliability value of above 0.7 [17]. According to RMR (0.075) and RMSEA (0.754) on the goodness-of-fit statistics, it indicates a good model fit [16].…”

“…Consumers tend to think that most of the companies actually are not environmentally concerns and responsible. Additionally, the locus of control is originated from a few types of characteristics namely self-esteem, belonging, and personal control [17]. Out of those three, only personal control directly has a positive relationship with proenvironmental behavior without any intercession [17].…”

“…Pro-environmental behaviour is affected by internal locus of control because individual's motivation to intervene or do something related to environmentally responsible is on behalf of the environment [17]. With the increasing of consumers' environment locus of control, their proenvironmental concern which lead to pro-environmental behavior will also increase in order to reduce Environmental concerns in which affect pro-environmental behaviour can also affecting willingness to pay for green products.…”

The contribution of facilitated group learning to supporting innovation amongst farmers

“…Another study, by NGO Public Agenda, cited by Kaplan (2000), attributed a recent decline in concern about environmental issues not to apathy but to an increasing sense of helplessness and futility on the part of individuals. Allen and Ferrand (1999) found that people who felt that their behaviour would not make any difference were less likely to participate in environmentally responsible behaviours. Kaplan (2000) proposed that the general solution to this kind of problem is to develop a participatory problem solving approach to encouraging sustainable behaviours and practices.…”

Exploring the Energy-Saving and Carbon Reduction Literacy of Restaurant Employees

“…Someone who attributes change to external factors and not to personal behavior (external locus of control) is considered to be less inclined to influence a situation. Internal locus of control describes people who believe in their ability to bring about change through personal actions (Hungerford & Volk, 1990;Allen and Ferrand 1999). The results of locus of control include internal and external locus of control, and both are important dimensions of the ESCR literacy of restaurant employees.…”