Trying to recycle domestic waste and feelings of guilt: a moderated mediation model applied to South African households

Issock, Paul Blaise Issock; Mpinganjira, Mercy; Roberts-Lombard, Mornay

doi:10.1016/j.spc.2021.03.003

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“…Thus, H4, H5, and H6 are supported. This result is consistent with previous studies of the impact of social norms on environmental protections and eco-friendly behaviours [ 45 , 62 , 63 ]. These findings show that when visitors see that the people who are most important to them put their rubbish in the bin, it will prompt them to use bins themselves because they will internalize the relevant facilitators.…”

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What Drives Visitors’ Use of Bins in Urban Parks? An Application of the Stimulus-Organism-Response Model

Wang

Han

2022

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Littering by visitors has led to severe challenges for rubbish collection in urban parks. One way to solve this problem is to encourage visitors to put rubbish in the bin. The purpose of this study is to explore the mechanism that drives people’s use of bins in urban parks. The theoretical model of stimulus-organism-response is used to test the influence of stimuli (personal and social norms) on people’s psychology (facilitators and inhibitors), thereby producing responses (the use of bins). In this study, we used a purposeful sampling method. Overall, 400 questionnaires were distributed, and 356 valid questionnaires were collected from visitors to the Shanghai City Park in China. The data were analysed using structural equations. The results show that personal and social norms have a significant impact on visitors’ internal psychological state (facilitators and inhibitors). More specifically, personal and social norms are positively correlated with facilitators and negatively correlated with inhibitors. They have a significant positive impact on people’s use of bins. We also found that facilitators and inhibitors partially mediate the relationship between norms and behaviours. The study suggests park managers should introduce various measures to influence people’s personal norms and cultivate people’s awareness of their obligation, responsibility, and commitment to the environment, and managers should also show visitors the consequences of not properly disposing of their rubbish as well as place more rubbish bins in key areas.

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What Drives Visitors’ Use of Bins in Urban Parks? An Application of the Stimulus-Organism-Response Model

Wang

Han

2022

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“…However, despite the wide penetration of SNSs, limited research attention has hitherto been devoted to the issue regarding how eco-message distributing on SNSs instigates people’s PEBs. In addition, since past works [ 14 , 29 , 30 ] have confirmed the motivational force of emotion (e.g., guilt) to take constructive actions (e.g., pro-social behavior [ 14 ], eco-friendly responses [ 15 ], ethical consumption, and recycle behavior [ 30 , 31 , 32 ]), guilt may play a role to encourage PEBs in our investigated context. This study thereupon constitutes a first attempt to explore this matter by integrating theories of NAT, guilt, and social stressors along with ETM, and empirically test them.…”

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confidence: 66%

“…As a self-conscious moral emotion [ 39 , 40 ], guilt deals with “some past behavior that is inconsistent with the set of internalized standards—often, but not necessarily, moral in nature” ([ 41 ], p. 103). Notwithstanding that guilt is an aversive emotion, its motivational force to take constructive actions has been consistently remarked on [ 14 , 30 ]. Typically, people experience guilt when they are aware that they should have behaved differently [ 15 ] to prevent the mis-happenings.…”

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“…In essence, the motivational effect of guilt has been consistently found on interpersonal communication [ 14 ], advertising practices [ 15 ], marketing campaigns [ 39 ], and charity campaigns [ 42 ]. Recent studies have increasingly applied guilt to pro-environmental issues (e.g., ethical consumption and recycle behavior [ 30 , 31 , 32 ]) and confirmed its significant role in promoting altruistic behavior and pro-social behavior [ 29 ]. Surprisingly, to our knowledge no studies to date have incorporated the notion of guilt with NAT to investigate PEBs in the context of SNSs, thus leaving a gap to be bridged.…”

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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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“…Also to increase consumers’ participation rate in the recycling process and acceptance of certain policy measures, education, social norms and the sense of responsibility are important attributes ( Issock et al., 2021 ). Social norms are particularly important to be understood when reaching out to people living in developing contexts, where more action is needed.…”

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The challenges of Covid-19 pandemic on improving plastic waste recycling rates

Ebner

Iacovidou

2021

Sustainable Production and Consumption

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The plastic system is burdened with many inefficiencies that have been exposed, and exacerbated, by the outbreak of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) pandemic in December 2019, widely known as COVID-19, and which threaten society's commitment to transition to a sustainable plastics economy. This perspective aims to depict the structural and systemic inefficiencies of the plastics system, and illuminate: (a) the vulnerability of the recycling sector to macroeconomic – particularly to oil price – shocks; (b) the economics of the recycling system; (c) the political dimensions of the plastics sector. It emphasises that is unwise to think about plastics recycling as an insular and linear problem, due to the complexity and interconnectedness of different parts of the plastic system that affect and are affected by the intertwined processes, stakeholders and values. That said, the transition to a sustainable plastics system requires an integrated, knowledge-based systems approach that interrogates the dynamics and causal-effect relationships of the interconnected challenges. This analytical scrutiny can indicate where interventions are needed in the plastics system towards creating transformational change.

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Trying to recycle domestic waste and feelings of guilt: a moderated mediation model applied to South African households

Cited by 19 publications

References 47 publications

What Drives Visitors’ Use of Bins in Urban Parks? An Application of the Stimulus-Organism-Response Model

What Drives Visitors’ Use of Bins in Urban Parks? An Application of the Stimulus-Organism-Response Model

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

The challenges of Covid-19 pandemic on improving plastic waste recycling rates

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