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

Frontiers in Psychology

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Lisa Selma Moussaoui¹  Olivier Desrichard¹  Taciano L. Milfont² 

[1] Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Université de Genève;School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington

关键词: person-situation interaction;    environmental concern;    attitude;    prompt;    cues;    pro-environmental behavior;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03057

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

CC BY