Greening our Future and Environmental Values: An Investigation of Perception, Attitudes and Awareness of Environmental issues in Zambia

Mweemba, Liberty; Wu, Hongjuan

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“…These findings are also in line with some prior research. Mweemba and Wu (2010) found that environmental knowledge is important in the formation of individual attitudes. Li et al (2013) found a positive relationship between environmental awareness and green perceived value.…”

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Effects of personal environmental awareness and environmental concern on employees' voluntary pro-environmental behavior: a mediation analysis in emerging countries

Saifulina

Penela²,

Ruzo‐Sanmartín³

2022

BJM

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PurposeSuccessful stimulation of employee engagement in pro-environmental behavior (PEB) at work can reduce organizational environmental footprint and boost its green performance. The aim of this paper is to investigate the individual factors that may promote such behavior at work, offering a complex model with mediating relationships not studied before.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper data was collected through a survey of 331 bank employees from different banks in Kazakhstan and Ecuador. Structural equation modeling was used to test the relationships between the different constructs.FindingsThe results identified that environmental values and attitudes mediate the relationship between (1) personal environmental awareness and (2) environmental concern and employees' voluntary PEB at work. Harmonious environmental passion (HEP) mediates the relationship between environmental values and attitudes and employees' voluntary PEB at work.Practical implicationsThis study presents important organizational policymaking implications with regard to organizational greening. The importance of environmental awareness is underlined, guiding managers to offer environmental education and training to the employees with the aim of improving environmental knowledge that may lead to employees' voluntary PEB at work. Also, managers should work on enhancing HEP.Originality/valuePrior literature on this topic is still scarce. This research presents important contributions by discussing how individual antecedents may act as stimuli of employees' voluntary PEB at work in the context of the banking sector in two emerging countries that are often neglected by prior literature.

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“…These findings are also in line with some prior research. Mweemba and Wu (2010) found that environmental knowledge is important in the formation of individual attitudes. Li et al.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of personal environmental awareness and environmental concern on employees' voluntary pro-environmental behavior: a mediation analysis in emerging countries

Saifulina

Penela²,

Ruzo‐Sanmartín³

2022

BJM

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“…This paper does not have scope to explore these philosophical issues, but has used ideas from social practice theory to examine how values evolve in people's lives. Debates around individuals' values and their origins have concerned psychology and marketing studies for some decades, and have recently started to be recognised as vitally important within the field of environmental values (for example, by Mweemba and Hongjuan [2010] and Butler [2010]). This discussion considers the contribution that approaches based on social practice theory could make to debates on environmental values, by highlighting the study's key findings, then reflecting on its methodological limitations, before offering three tentative suggestions for policy and practice.…”

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Social Practice and the Evolution of Personal Environmental Values

Hards¹

2011

environ values

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How and why people's environmental values change is a topical research issue, with major implications for sustainability policy. However, approaches based on individualistic models have had limited success in explaining the emergence of values, or developing interventions to change them. Work drawing on social practice theory takes an alternative approach, seeing values and practice as coconstructive. This paper examines how personal environmental values evolve through performance of practice, experience within specific contexts and social interaction. Drawing on a narrative-based study of UK climate change campaigners, it aims to contribute to a much-needed dialogue between sociological and psychological approaches to environmental values. KEYWORDSSocial practice theory, climate change movement, sustainable lifestyle, community of practice, narrative UCL LIBRARY = username $REMOTE_ASSR = IP address Thu, 09 Jun 2016 18:49:24 = Date & Time SARAH HARDS 24 Environmental Values 20.1of trust in scientists and government, and signs of issue-fatigue (Maibach et al., 2010), combined with the global recession, the challenges are great. In the UK, government spending cuts may mean expensive public engagement campaigns are no longer viable and future interventions will need to be increasingly creative and cost-effective. More than ever, we need a rich and accurate understanding of how and why people's environmental values change.Academic research has wrestled with the subject of individual environmental values and behaviour for several decades. However, significant areas remain unresolved, including the value-action gap (Blake, 1999) whereby individual behaviour frequently does not match expressed beliefs. While one response is to add more, or different, explanatory variables to existing models, Shove (2010) argues that the assumption of a simple, one-way relationship between values and action is itself dubious (an idea supported by psychological literature such as Bargh and Morsella, 2008). Another outstanding question concerns the malleability of values over time: what processes obstruct, facilitate and maintain change? Many conventional approaches have modelled decisions as one-off events, paying little attention to how future ideas and behaviours build on past ones (Shove, 2010) 1 . A more nuanced approach to the genealogy of personal values could provide a deeper understanding of change, and a better groundwork for engagement policies.Based on these problems and others, there is a sense in some quarters that the dominant approaches of the past have stalled. The roots of this impasse may lie partly in disciplinary divisions. In recent decades, the field of human-environment relations has been divided between structural and agentic approaches. Psychological literature has predominantly focused on models centring the individual as a decision-maker, while sociological work has generally emphasised structural transitions. (See Middlemiss [2010] for a comparison of these 'individualist' and 'situated' approaches in the cont...

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“…Yet, we found only three studies that included both action-focused items (agent-action) and aim-focused items (agent-aim or agent-action-aim) in one scale ( Estrada et al, 2017 ; Q. He et al, 2019 ; Mweemba & Hongjuan, 2010 ).…”

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Believing That We Can Change Our World for the Better: A Triple-A (Agent-Action-Aim) Framework of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in the Context of Collective Social and Ecological Aims

Hamann

Wullenkord

Reese

et al. 2023

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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Social and ecological crises require people to act together, for instance, against climate change or social injustice. Psychological scholarship suggests that human agency, in terms of individuals’ self-efficacy and collective efficacy, plays a crucial role in motivating people to act for a better world. However, progress in this field and hence the utilization of its accumulated knowledge is hindered by manifold conceptualizations and operationalizations. We therefore identify key problems in how the concept of self-efficacy has evolved and been used in the domain of environmental protection and then present a conceptual solution: the triple-A framework. This framework organizes and integrates theoretical insights by differentiating which agents, actions, and aims are involved in assessments of efficacy. We then illustrate the framework’s broader application and highlight recommendations for improved measurement of self-efficacy beliefs. We further offer a research agenda on how human agency can be utilized to promote social and ecological aims. Public Abstract Many people do not act together against climate change or social inequalities because they feel they or their group cannot make a difference. Understanding how people come to feel that they can achieve something (a perception of self-efficacy) is therefore crucial for motivating people to act together for a better world. However, it is difficult to summarize already existing self-efficacy research because previous studies have used many different ways of naming and measuring it. In this article, we uncover the problems that this raises and propose the triple-A framework as a solution. This new framework shows which agents, actions, and aims are important for understanding self-efficacy. By offering specific recommendations for measuring self-efficacy, the triple-A framework creates a basis for mobilizing human agency in the context of climate change and social injustice.

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Greening our Future and Environmental Values: An Investigation of Perception, Attitudes and Awareness of Environmental issues in Zambia

Cited by 15 publications

References 30 publications

Effects of personal environmental awareness and environmental concern on employees' voluntary pro-environmental behavior: a mediation analysis in emerging countries

Effects of personal environmental awareness and environmental concern on employees' voluntary pro-environmental behavior: a mediation analysis in emerging countries

Social Practice and the Evolution of Personal Environmental Values

Believing That We Can Change Our World for the Better: A Triple-A (Agent-Action-Aim) Framework of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in the Context of Collective Social and Ecological Aims

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