Explaining Private and Public Sphere Personal Environmental Behaviour

Balžekienė, Aistė; Telešienė, Audronė

doi:10.5755/j01.ss.74.4.1031

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“…For example, the majority of respondents are not members of 'green' organizations and never participate in their activities (Table 2). Similar results were observed by Balzekiene and Telesiene [117] in 2010. These results show that people are not very environmentally active and committed in Lithuania.…”

Section: Descriptive Analysissupporting

confidence: 91%

The Importance of Environmental Knowledge for Private and Public Sphere Pro-Environmental Behavior: Modifying the Value-Belief-Norm Theory

2019

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The promotion of pro-environmental behavior is regarded as very important in solving environmental problems. The Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) theory usually emphasizes internal factors; however, we have transformed this theory by including the environmental knowledge as an external factor. The results showed that action-related environmental knowledge was related to the ecological worldview and directly influenced the private sphere behavior. The ecological worldview, which in this paper was operationalized as environmental concern, had a direct effect on public sphere behavior and an indirect effect on private behavior through awareness of behavioral consequences. Thus, in this paper we revealed how specific environmental knowledge influenced pro-environmental behavior. We also suggest that it is important to educate people about local and global environmental problems, about the impact of behavior on the environment not only in private but also in the public sphere, and to foster the ecocentrism, as well. In addition, we revealed the meaning and necessity of education for environmental citizenship.

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Section: Descriptive Analysissupporting

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The Importance of Environmental Knowledge for Private and Public Sphere Pro-Environmental Behavior: Modifying the Value-Belief-Norm Theory

2019

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“…In other studies, the authors suggest that women declare to carry out more pro-environmental actions when asked about daily behaviours such as resource conservation, recycling, and transport use [68,69]. Balzekiene and Telesiene [70] distinguish the private from the public sphere and conclude that active private sphere environmental behaviour is more common among women.…”

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confidence: 95%

Analysing the Influence of Green Marketing Communication in Consumers’ Green Purchase Behaviour

Correia

Sousa

Viseu

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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This study aims to explore whether consumers’ attention to companies’ green marketing communication influences their green purchase behaviour. It also analyses the importance of consumers’ characteristics, namely gender, education, and green attitudes, in their attention to companies’ green marketing communication. An online survey was carried out on the population residing in Portugal over 18 years of age, allowing us to collect 690 valid responses. Data analysis techniques including descriptive analyses, parametric and non-parametric tests, linear correlation, and regression analysis were used. The achieved results allow us to conclude that consumers are attentive to companies’ green marketing communication. A strong correlation between consumers’ attention to companies’ green marketing communication and green purchasing behaviour was identified. The results also confirm that individuals with higher educational levels and green attitudes and females are the most attentive to companies’ green marketing communication.

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“…Alternatively, public PEB corresponds to environmental citizenship and the support of pro-environmental policies [ 20 ]. Seemingly, in traditional physical settings, public PEB requires more effort and time to perform than that of the private PEB [ 21 ]. However, when applied to the case of SNSs, public PEB is not only easier to be implemented but also to be observed by others because of the speedy information transmission available in SNSs [ 23 ].…”

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“…Private PEB focuses more on one’s daily pro-environmental activities (e.g., recycling), whereas public PEB is related to environmental citizenship (e.g., supporting pro-environmental policies and activities [ 20 ]). Most studies in this field have merely looked at either the private PEB or both PEBs in the physical context [ 21 , 22 ], ignoring the superior influence of information diffusion available in SNSs [ 23 ]. Since both PEBs are relatively easier to be observed in the context of SNSs (e.g., through the check-in function and an update in one’s news-feed) than in physical settings [ 23 ], it is time to take both PEBs into account.…”

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Go Green, Go Social: Exploring the Antecedents of Pro-Environmental Behaviors in Social Networking Sites beyond Norm Activation Theory

Fang

2022

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The paucity of environmental resources and the threatening warning of global climate change have led to increasing research on environmental issues [e.g., pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs)]. Although norm activation theory (NAT) is a well-recognized theory for approaching PEBs, existing works appear insufficient to explain PEB in the context of social networking sites (SNSs) without taking contextual, emotional, and social factors into account. Grounded in the egocentric tactician model (ETM), NAT, along with the notions of guilt and social stressors, this study integrates a new ETM path, a supplemented emotional path, alongside the conventional NAT path to achieve a more complete picture of what are crucial determinants of PEBs in the context of SNSs. Social stressors positively moderate the emotional path. Data collected from 897 Facebook users confirm all of our proposed hypotheses. Results indicate that beyond the traditional NAT path, the new ETM path and the emotional path add values to illustrate PEBs on SNSs, and new constructs of self-influence on SNSs (SIS) and guilt remarkably drive PEBs alongside personal norms. Implications for theory and practice are discussed, and guidelines for future research are identified.

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Explaining Private and Public Sphere Personal Environmental Behaviour

Cited by 9 publications

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The Importance of Environmental Knowledge for Private and Public Sphere Pro-Environmental Behavior: Modifying the Value-Belief-Norm Theory

The Importance of Environmental Knowledge for Private and Public Sphere Pro-Environmental Behavior: Modifying the Value-Belief-Norm Theory

Analysing the Influence of Green Marketing Communication in Consumers’ Green Purchase Behaviour

Go Green, Go Social: Exploring the Antecedents of Pro-Environmental Behaviors in Social Networking Sites beyond Norm Activation Theory

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