The role of environmental attitude in the efficacy of smart-meter-based feedback interventions

Henn, Laura; Taube, Oliver; Kaiser, Florian G.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.04.007

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“…In any case, it will be difficult to intrinsically motivate students to change their habits. Studies about adult consumers are already pointing out that most are unwilling to adjust their consumption patterns unless it is beneficial [65,66]. Grønhøj and Thøgersen [67] described motivation of young people as rooted in family descriptive norms.…”

Section: Efficacy Of Environmental Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Green Awareness in Action—How Energy Conservation Action Forces on Environmental Knowledge, Values and Behaviour in Adolescents’ School Life

2020

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Affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy consumption is a crucial goal of the Agenda 2030. To raise each citizen’s awareness for more effective energy consumptions, proper education is necessary. The classroom project GAIA (Green Awareness in Action) was designed to change energy consumption patterns to pursue green behaviour. The class-wise aim was to improve schools’ CO2-balance and to promote environmentally sustainable behaviour without impacting school life quality. Our target group were sixth graders (N = 132, M = 11.03, SD ± 0.23, 53.4% = girls) of one Greek school. To monitor the project’s effect, a pre- and post-test design was applied to measure environmental literacy regarding environmental knowledge, attitudes/values and behaviour. A regression analysis revealed that students with poor previous knowledge reached higher learning effects compared to those with good previous knowledge. Related to the environmental knowledge types, an ANCOVA analysis revealed a knowledge gain in action-related and effectiveness knowledge. The overall learning effect correlates positively with pro-environmental preference (high scores in preservation, low scores in utilisation) and negatively with weak pro-environmental preferences. Anthropocentric (utilitarian) preferences primarily focussing on nature exploitation have considerably decreased. The project illustrates how far individual behaviour can be targeted in green educational initiatives.

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Section: Efficacy Of Environmental Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Green Awareness in Action—How Energy Conservation Action Forces on Environmental Knowledge, Values and Behaviour in Adolescents’ School Life

2020

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“…For example, Kurz et al 's (2005) intervention study measured environmental attitudes and used prompts (named attunement labels in their paper), but the authors examined whether attitudes were correlated with water consumption at baseline and not whether attitudes interacted with prompts in predicting water consumption. Unrelated to prompts but following the same reasoning for smart-meter-based feedback interventions, Henn et al (2019) argued that "a certain level of motivation apparent in a person's environmental attitudes is required for feedback to become effective" (p. 75).…”

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Do Environmental Prompts Work the Same for Everyone? A Test of Environmental Attitudes as a Moderator

2020

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The extant literature has focused either on personal variables or on situational factors to explain pro-environmental behavior despite several calls to integrate both. The present research addresses this integration call by testing the interaction between environmental attitudes and situational prompts on pro-environmental behavior. Three experimental studies manipulate the presence/absence of pro-environmental prompts, measure environmental attitudes, and investigate the effect of both variables on behavior. Study 1 showed a simple effect: participants with higher levels of pro-environmental attitudes (compared to those with lower levels) performed more energy saving behavior in the presence of prompts. However, in the absence of prompt, none of the participants performed the behavior, which prevented us from statistically testing the interaction. Studies 2 and 3 were conducted with a similar design: main effects of attitude and prompts were obtained, but the interaction was not found. A Bayesian analysis of the data suggested more evidence toward the null hypothesis of no interaction between environmental attitudes and situational prompts.

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“…Regional and seasonal components seem to be the first step towards sustainability in the freshmen's' minds if they implement their concept idea in their daily life. According to various studies, humans work hard to change their habits in general [72,73]. The following study about consumer perception, awareness of meat production and consumer willingness of changing behaviour regarding sustainable protein consumption (alternatives, insects) was not received well [74].…”

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First steps towards sustainability? University freshmen perceptions on nature versus environment

Maurer

Bogner

2020

PLoS ONE

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The Global Earth Overshoot Day, the date when all annually available natural resources are consumed, is set for July this year. For densely populated European countries like Germany or Switzerland, that specific day is due even earlier (May). To overcome such an unsustainable lifestyle, immediate actions are required, which includes substantial educational efforts. As the model of "Sustainable Development" is complex, appropriate pedagogical actions need to support cognitive learning, critical thinking and behavioural actions. Knowledge about individual conceptions in relation to the Environment, Nature and Ecological Footprints contributes to preconditions to succeed. To what extent present teaching methods influenced individual conceptions during the first UN-decade regarding those terms is illustrated by 464 Swiss-German university freshmen who participated in our paper-pencil test, which is based on four open questions. The term of Environment was perceived as the sum of biocentric, ecocentric and anthropocentric views. The participants often equated the term to Nature and associated it with positive feelings or emotions. Therefore, calm, joy and aesthetic appreciation were predominantly named. Regardless of the concept, humans were perceived as the Greatest Environmental Threat. In contrast, recommendations to reduce Environmental Footprints regarding mobility & transport, waste avoidance and consumption differ. Following a binary logistic regression analysis, the involvement of the Inclusion of Self Scale (INS) was used as an explanatory variable to detect patterns of those conceptions. Relating sustainable concepts, natural resources were frequently named exceeding saving water and energy or other association dealt with secondhand issues or regional/ seasonal usages. Such ideas are shaped by experiences and scientific expertise.

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The role of environmental attitude in the efficacy of smart-meter-based feedback interventions

Cited by 45 publications

References 38 publications

Green Awareness in Action—How Energy Conservation Action Forces on Environmental Knowledge, Values and Behaviour in Adolescents’ School Life

Green Awareness in Action—How Energy Conservation Action Forces on Environmental Knowledge, Values and Behaviour in Adolescents’ School Life

Do Environmental Prompts Work the Same for Everyone? A Test of Environmental Attitudes as a Moderator

First steps towards sustainability? University freshmen perceptions on nature versus environment

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