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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Social and Community Psychology | Psychology | Conservation and Biodiversity | Regional Analysis and Development | Communication and Media Studies | Environmental Science and Management | Ecological Applications | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy | Environmental Politics | Environmental Sociology | Communication And Media Studies | Urban and Regional Planning | Political Science | Environmental Management | Landscape Ecology | Social Change | Social Policy And Planning |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Climate Change Adaptation Measures | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales | Land Stewardship | Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Forest and Woodlands Environments | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Development and Welfare | Political science and public policy | Residential Energy Conservation and Efficiency | Social Impacts of Climate Change and Variability | Environmental education and awareness | Environmental Services | Communication not elsewhere classified | Rural Water Evaluation (incl. Water Quality)
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Leaders and subgroups: One of us or one of them?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-1999
Abstract: In two experiments we examined responses to nomination of a leader from within a super ordinate group that comprised subgroups. In Experiment 1, the leader was aligned with the participant's subgroup (in group) or the other subgroup (out group), or the leader was non-aligned, belonging to both or neither subgroup. Results indicated that nomination of a leader made subgroup identity salient relative to a no leader control. Respondents expected aligned leaders, especially out group leaders, to favor their own subgroup and those with an out group leader were more biased themselves. In Experiment 2, members evaluated in group and out group leaders in contexts that emphasized intergroup competition (at the level of the super ordinate group) or intergroup competition (between the subgroups). Members were more satisfied with the leader in the inter group context, although context did not attenuate differences in evaluations of in group and out group leaders. Implications for leadership in groups and organizations are discussed.
Rice farmers adapting to drought in the Philippines
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-08-2020
A part of the energy in crowd: Changing people's energy behavior via group-based approaches
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 2018
Whose view do we use? Comparing expert water professional and lay householder perspectives on water-saving behaviours
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-11-2020
Urban green space use during a time of stress: A case study during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Brisbane, Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-01-0005
DOI: 10.1002/PAN3.10218
Abstract: Spending time in nature is one potential way to cope with the negative physical and psychological health impacts from major stressful life events. In 2020, a large fraction of the global population was impacted by restrictions to contain the spread of the COVID‐19 outbreak, a period characterised by marked health risks and behavioural changes. Here we explore whether people responded to this stressor by spending more time in nature and investigate the reasons for any changes. We surveyed 1,002 people in Brisbane, Australia in 2020, to measure the change in use of green space during the restrictions period and benefits people associated with visiting them. About 36% of participants increased their urban green space use, but 26% reduced it, indicating a great deal of flux. Furthermore, 45% of the previous non‐users of urban green space began using it for the first time during the restrictions period. Older people were less likely to increase their green space use and those with a backyard were more likely to increase their use of green spaces. Participants' change in use occurred regardless of the amount of green space available in close proximity to their households. In addition, we did not find a relationship between nature‐relatedness and change in use. People's reasons for green space use shifted during the pandemic‐related restrictions period, with many emphasising improvement of personal well‐being rather than consolidating community capital. Most participants indicated an increase in the importance of the psychological and physical benefits obtained from urban green spaces. We conclude that increased urban green space use during moments of stress such as the COVID‐19 pandemic has the potential to ameliorate some of the negative effects of the stressor, but that the capacity and desire to spend more time in green space varies markedly across society. Sufficient urban green space provision for all sections of society will maximise the opportunity to employ a nature‐based coping mechanism during times of personal or community stress.
Fun environmentalism!: Potential contributions of autonomy supportive psychology to sustainable lifestyles
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 02-03-2010
DOI: 10.1108/14777831011025508
Abstract: This paper seeks to outline a theoretical argument for movement towards a positive, holistic approach to environmentalism, one aspect of which is to make environmental action more satisfying, interesting, and fun. The paper aims to identify new approaches and techniques for in idual behaviour change that can explain and promote the broad lifestyle change needed. Self‐determination theory was applied to the problem of unsustainable resource consumption by Australian households. To achieve sustainable levels of Australian household carbon emissions, in iduals will have to adopt and maintain high impact pro‐environmental behaviours across a number of behavioural domains. It is hypothesised that motivation type will be a critical factor in bringing about personally sustainable changes. In particular, self‐determined (autonomous) motivation will be essential for generalisation of pro‐environmental behaviour. It is also proposed that supporting other psychological needs of relatedness and competence for environmental action will further enhance self‐determination for pro‐environmental behaviour. If these hypotheses are supported, the next challenge is to identify optimal ways of promoting autonomous behaviour change, drawing on, and expanding from self‐determination theory. Initial proposals for autonomy, competence, and relatedness supporting interventions are presented. Changes achieved through the motivational approach have the potential to significantly impact household carbon footprints. The paper moves away from incentive unishment based approaches to changing pro‐environmental behaviour and provides a rationale for a new approach that focuses on supporting optimal motivation types for maintained and generalised pro‐environmental behaviour.
Using individual householder survey responses to predict household environmental outcomes: The cases of recycling and water conservation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Accelerating the adoption of water sensitive innovations: community perceptions of practices and technologies to mitigate urban stormwater pollution
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-01-2023
Fostering water sensitive citizenship - Community profiles of engagement in water-related issues
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Factors influencing nature interactions vary between cities and types of nature interactions
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-02-2021
DOI: 10.1002/PAN3.10181
Not all motivated rejection of science is unconscious: Reply to Tryon (2018)
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 07-2018
DOI: 10.1037/AMP0000335
Abstract: Tryon (2018) states that our proposed attitude roots are "effectively and functionally unconscious" (p. 685) and proposes connectionist neural network models as a mechanism for explaining these unconscious processes. In our response, we disagree with the presumption that our attitude roots necessarily operate at an unconscious level. Although some attitude roots may exert their influence through an unconscious process, others exert their influence as a result of explicit and mindful reasoning, and others still operate at a "preconscious" level: outside conscious awareness but accessible if required. Finally, we clarify that we did not claim in our article to have developed a theory or a metatheory. Rather, we drew on numerous established theories to make the case for the role of attitude roots and did so using a transtheoretical language that we hope can be useful in terms of integrating insights and developing concrete persuasion strategies. (PsycINFO Database Record
Cultural attitudes as WTP determinants: A revised cultural worldview scale
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 17-06-2016
DOI: 10.3390/SU8060570
A political experiment may have extracted Australia from the climate wars
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-07-2022
Community knowledge about water: Who has better knowledge and is this associated with water-related behaviors and support for water-related policies?
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 18-07-2016
Developing a social psychology of climate change
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-07-2014
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.2058
The relationship between country and individual household wealth and climate change concern: the mediating role of control
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-2021
A novel mixed method smart metering approach to reconciling differences between perceived and actual residential end use water consumption
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2013
Conflicting social norms and community conservation compliance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2014
No evidence of an extinction of experience or emotional disconnect from nature in urban Singapore
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-10-2020
DOI: 10.1002/PAN3.10148
How social capital influences community support for alternative water sources
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2016
Conservation concern among Australian undergraduates is associated with childhood socio‐cultural experiences
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-09-2020
DOI: 10.1002/PAN3.10145
Social trust, risk perceptions and public acceptance of recycled water: Testing a social-psychological model
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2014
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2014.01.039
Abstract: Faced with a severe drought, the residents of the regional city of Toowoomba, in South East Queensland, Australia were asked to consider a potable wastewater reuse scheme to supplement drinking water supplies. As public risk perceptions and trust have been shown to be key factors in acceptance of potable reuse projects, this research developed and tested a social-psychological model of trust, risk perceptions and acceptance. Participants (N = 380) were surveyed a few weeks before a referendum was held in which residents voted against the controversial scheme. Analysis using structural equation modelling showed that the more community members perceived that the water authority used fair procedures (e.g., consulting with the community and providing accurate information), the greater their sense of shared identity with the water authority. Shared social identity in turn influenced trust via increased source credibility, that is, perceptions that the water authority is competent and has the community's interest at heart. The findings also support past research showing that higher levels of trust in the water authority were associated with lower perceptions of risk, which in turn were associated with higher levels of acceptance, and vice versa. The findings have a practical application for improving public acceptance of potable recycled water schemes.
The Impact-Likelihood Matrix: A policy tool for behaviour prioritisation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2017
Attitude roots and Jiu Jitsu persuasion: Understanding and overcoming the motivated rejection of science.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 07-2017
DOI: 10.1037/A0040437
Abstract: There is a worryingly large chasm between scientific consensus and popular opinion. Roughly one third of Americans are skeptical that humans are primarily responsible for climate change rates of some infectious diseases are climbing in the face of anti-immunization beliefs and significant numbers of the population worldwide are antievolution creationists. It is easy to assume that resistance to an evidence-based message is a result of ignorance or failure to grasp evidence (the "deficit model" of science communication). But increasingly, theorists understand there are limits to this approach, and that if people are motivated to reject science, then repeating evidence will have little impact. In an effort to create a transtheoretical language for describing these underlying motivations, we introduce the notion of "attitude roots." Attitude roots are the underlying fears, ideologies, worldviews, and identity needs that sustain and motivate specific "surface" attitudes like climate skepticism and creationism. It is the antiscience attitude that people hear and see, but it is the attitude root-what lies under the surface-that allows the surface attitudes to survive even when they are challenged by evidence. We group these attitude roots within 6 themes-worldviews, conspiratorial ideation, vested interests, personal identity expression, social identity needs, and fears and phobias-and review literature relevant to them. We then use these insights to develop a "jiu jitsu" model of persuasion that places emphasis on creating change by aligning with (rather than competing with) these attitude roots. (PsycINFO Database Record
Turn it off: An action research study of top management influence on energy conservation in the workplace
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 21-03-2016
An intraindividual perspective on pro-environmental behaviors at work
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-2012
Investigating how economic and national identity loss messages impact climate change policy support
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2022
Non-climatic stressors constraining adaptation to drought in rice-farming communities in the Philippines
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-07-2022
Positive Affective Framing of Information Reduces Risk Perceptions and Increases Acceptance of Recycled Water
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-11-2020
Meta-analyses of the determinants and outcomes of belief in climate change
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-02-2016
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2943
Conflicting Norms Highlight the Need for Action
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-09-2014
Abstract: Previous research has not addressed the possibility that people may face conflicting norms of pro-environmental behavior from their multiple in-groups. Across two studies, the authors test competing hypotheses: People may be demotivated by norm conflict, or conversely, norm conflict may motivate people to action. The results of both studies suggest a clearly motivating effect of conflict. Norm conflict was associated with decreased water usage (i.e., increased water conservation) in Study 1, and increased pro-environmental behavior intentions in Study 2. The effects of conflict were partially mediated by perceived effectiveness in Study 2. Although these initial findings indicate that conflict motivates rather than hinders behavioral engagement, future research should investigate whether the nature of the influence of norm conflict depends on factors such as issue importance.
Why do people engage in collective action? Revisiting the role of perceived effectiveness
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2006
Relationships among conspiratorial beliefs, conservatism and climate scepticism across nations
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-05-2018
Developing an indicator of community appreciation of biodiversity
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2023
It's what you do and where you do it: Perceived similarity in household water saving behaviours
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
Energizing and De-Motivating Effects of Norm-Conflict
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-10-2013
Abstract: Norms have a pervasive influence on behavior, yet previous research has not addressed that people often face conflicting norms from multiple ingroups. The current research addresses this gap in the context of proenvironmental behavior and demonstrates two effects predicted by the novel theoretical position we offer: People can be de-motivated by norm-conflict, or conversely, norm-conflict can encourage people to take action. Studies 1 and 2 demonstrated that norm-conflict is associated with increased perceived effectiveness for those with positive attitudes to the issue and reduced perceived effectiveness for those with moderate attitudes, and effectiveness perceptions mediated an indirect effect on behavioral intentions. Study 3 found that perceived effectiveness also moderates the effects of norm-conflict such that norm-conflict only influences intentions when perceived effectiveness is high. Norm-conflict is both positively and negatively related to behavioral decision making, suggesting additional considerations in the design of social norms-based interventions.
Social identity, self-categorization, and leadership: A field study of small interactive groups
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 03-2012
Providing information promotes greater public support for potable recycled water
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2014
DOI: 10.1016/J.WATRES.2014.05.002
Abstract: In spite of the clear need to address water security through sourcing new and alternative water supplies, there has been marked resistance from some communities to the introduction of recycled water for potable use. The present studies tested the effectiveness of providing relatively brief information about the recycled water process and the safety of recycled water on cognitive, emotional and behavioral responses. Three information conditions (basic information or basic information plus information about pollutants in the water, or information that puts the risk of chemicals in the water in perspective) were compared to a no information control condition. Across three experiments there was general support for the hypothesis that providing information would result in more positive cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses to recycled water. Information increased comfort with potable recycled water and, in general, participants in the information conditions expressed more positive emotions (Experiment 1 & 3), less negative emotions (Experiment 3), more support (Experiment 1 & 3), and lower risk perceptions (Experiment 1 & 3) than those in the no information control condition. Participants who received information also drank more recycled water than control participants (Experiment 1 & 2, although the differences between conditions was not statistically significant) and were significantly more likely to vote in favor of the introduction of a recycled water scheme (Experiment 3). There was evidence, however, that providing information about the level of pollutants in recycled water may lead to ambivalent responses.
Community perspectives on sustainable urban water security
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-11-7022
Reactions to procedural discrimination in an intergroup context: The role of group membership of the authority
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-06-2009
Abstract: The present research examined whether reactions to procedural discrimination (favoring self vs. favoring other procedures) are qualified by whether the authority is an ingroup or an outgroup member. We argue that because we tend to demonstrate ingroup bias in an intergroup context, we should react more positively when we are favored over an outgroup other than when an outgroup other is favored over us. Furthermore, we reason that because compared with outgroup authorities, ingroup authorities are perceived to be more related to us, we should react more strongly to procedural discrimination exercised by the ingroup authority. Across the two studies, results support our predictions. Results are discussed with reference to the social identity perspective and the group-value model.
Images That Engage People With Sustainable Urban Water Management
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-03-2018
Exploring potential mechanisms involved in the relationship between eudaimonic wellbeing and nature connection
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-3001
Leaders and their treatment of subgroups: Implications for evaluations of the leader and the superordinate group
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-01-2003
DOI: 10.1002/EJSP.153
Are People High in Skepticism About Anthropogenic Climate Change Necessarily Resistant to Influence? Some Cause for Optimism
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-03-2016
Abstract: A sizable minority of people doubt that climate change is primarily caused by human activity (“attribution skeptics”). Consequently, it is important to examine the psychological drivers of pro-environmental intentions among attribution skeptics and the extent to which they are more or less influenced by traditional climate change messages. Study 1 ( N = 4,345) examined the psychological correlates of motivation to engage in pro-environmental behaviors among people at various points of the spectrum of belief in anthropogenic climate change. As expected, motivation to engage in pro-environmental behaviors is related to risk perceptions and concern about the consequences of climate change. Interestingly, however, these links were stronger the more participants reported being skeptical that climate change is anthropogenic. This suggests that climate change interventions might be especially successful in changing pro-environmental motivation among attribution skeptics, a prediction supported by an experimental intervention (Study 2 N = 600). Theoretical and applied implications are discussed.
Building community support for coastal management — What types of messages are most effective?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2019
Experiences of pride, not guilt, predict pro-environmental behavior when pro-environmental descriptive norms are more positive
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2016
The effect of images on community engagement with sustainable stormwater management: The role of integral disgust and sadness
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Theory of planned behaviour, identity and intentions to engage in environmental activism
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2008
What predicts community members’ intentions to take action to protect koalas?
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 03-02-2022
DOI: 10.1071/PC21041
Abstract: Context Without urgent action, koalas could be extinct in New South Wales (NSW), Australia by 2050. Despite the key role that community members could play in koala protection, we know little about what might motivate them to engage in these actions. Aims This study surveyed residents (n = 585) of local government areas of far north east NSW to identify demographic and social-psychological factors associated with likelihood of engaging in actions that could help to protect koalas. Methods A survey using a multi-pronged recruitment process was administered to relevant participants. Key results Binary logistic regression analyses revealed that the likelihood of joining a community conservation group was greater in the Byron shire and for those with a stronger environmental identity, more positive attitudes toward koalas and who perceived that others who are important to them take action to protect koalas. Byron residents, those with a stronger environmental identity and those with more knowledge about koalas were also more likely to advocate government for koala protection. Positive attitudes towards koalas and perceptions that others who are important to them take action to protect koalas significantly predicted likelihood of restoring native vegetation on respondents’ properties. Gender emerged as the only significant predictor of likelihood of joining council conservation initiatives. Conclusions These findings provide insights that could help guide the efforts of government and non-government agencies in engaging community members with koala protection. Implications This study identified which factors to target when focusing on koala protection behaviours, and can be used to help guide efforts to build community support for koala protection actions.
Reactions to positive deviance: Social identity and attribution dimensions
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2006
Abstract: This research examines whether evaluations of positive deviates (i.e. high achieving group members) are influenced by the attributions they make for their performance. We argue that ingroup positive deviates who make group attributions help enhance the ingroup's image and thus attract favorable evaluations. In Experiment 1, ingroup positive deviates who made group attributions were generally evaluated more favorably than ingroup positive deviates who made in idual attributions. There was also evidence that the positive deviates' attribution style influenced group and self-evaluations. Evaluations of outgroup positive deviates were not influenced by their attribution style. In Experiment 2, an ingroup positive deviate who was successful and attributed that success to the group was upgraded relative to an ingroup positive deviate who made in idual attributions. Group evaluations were also higher when the positive deviate made group attributions. This pattern did not emerge when the positive deviate failed. The results are discussed from a social identity perspective.
Relationships between daily affect and pro-environmental behavior at work: The moderating role of pro-environmental attitude
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-02-2013
DOI: 10.1002/JOB.1788
A cautionary note about messages of hope: Focusing on progress in reducing carbon emissions weakens mitigation motivation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2016
A Mediation Model of Air Travelers’ Voluntary Climate Action
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-04-2016
Abstract: This study developed a behavioral model of intentions to purchase aviation carbon offsets, and tested the model through structural equation models. The model draws on the established hierarchical models of human behavior to hypothesize relationships between general and specific attitudes as predictors of offsetting intentions. The New Ecological Paradigm scale, the theory of planned behavior and variables from past literature were employed to measure general environmental attitudes, intermediate beliefs, and behavior-specific attitudes and norms. The current research represents a first attempt to build a theoretical model that helps to understand the relationships between factors that determine whether people will purchase aviation carbon offsets. The results show that a more positive orientation toward the environment could be an important predictor of environmental intentions operating both directly on intentions as well as guiding beliefs that relate to intentions. Policy implications of the findings are discussed, encouraging greater voluntary climate action.
Developmental Pattern of Prosocial Motivation
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-1989
Abstract: Changes in patterns of prosocial motivation between Grades 2 and 12 were examined in five s les from four countrics: West Germany, Poland, Italy,and the United States. The Prosocial Motivation Questionnaire (PSMQ), an instrument based on theoretical elaborations about evaluative standards operative in prosocial action, was used to assess within-subject preference for five prosocial motives: hedonism, self-interest, conformity, task orientation, and other-orientation. Studied were two s les from Berlin (West average age range, 11-6 to 18-6 years) and one s le each from Warsaw (11-11 to 18-11), Bologna (11-6 to 18-11), and Phoenix, Arizona (8-4 to 13-4). The major results held for all cities studied and confirm the generalizability of earlier national findings. Specifically, the major findings were as follows: (1) extrinsic motives for prosocial acts (hedonism and self-interest) were least preferred, whereas intrinsic motives (task and other-orientation) were most highly valued, and conformity was always in between (2) preference for hedonism decreased in the younger s les, preference for conformity decreased in the older s les, and age-related increases were found only for task orientation and (3) gender differences emerged at age 12, thus confirming prior findings that girls prefer intrinsic motives more than boys do.
The common in-group identity model enhances communication about recycled water
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Collaborating for sustainable water and energy management: Assessment and categorisation of indigenous involvement in remote Australian communities
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 15-01-2019
DOI: 10.3390/SU11020427
Abstract: Indigenous peoples living in remote areas are often reliant on Governments for essential services and local economic development opportunities. Collaboration and partnership in resource planning and management is espoused as an approach that can provide multiple benefits for all stakeholders including more robust and long-lasting decisions, relationship-building and trust between government and community members as well as capacity building and empowerment of citizens. In Australia however, little evidence from the remote Indigenous community context is available to inform successful collaborations. This paper presents novel research using thematic analysis of practitioner interviews and document review to analyse the current situation of service-provider- remote community engagement and collaboration for sustainable water and energy management. An adapted typology of Indigenous engagement is applied as an analytical framework, categorising water and energy management initiatives according to four key types, each with varying levels of collaboration and implications for sustainable water and energy. Application of the typology shows that technocratic approaches to community engagement continue to dominate this space as collaborative processes are constrained by a range of institutional, governance, technical and cultural factors. The findings have implications for research, policy and practice, and point to a need for a systemic approach to address barriers and facilitate genuine collaboration.
Predictors of Nature Connection Among Urban Residents: Assessing the Role of Childhood and Adult Nature Experiences
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-11-2018
Abstract: Fostering nature connection may promote psychological well-being and enhance proenvironmental attitudes. However, there is limited understanding of what factors influence a person’s nature connection. Using survey responses from 1,000 residents of a large Australian city, we describe the relationship between nature connection and nature experiences at different stages in life, that is, past nature experiences that occurred during childhood, and current, everyday nature experiences. Both past childhood nature experiences and duration of current nature experiences significantly predicted nature connection. The positive relationship between duration of current nature experiences and nature connection was not significantly moderated by past childhood nature experiences. Hence, current nature experiences are associated with high levels of nature connection, even among those lacking childhood nature experiences. This research empirically demonstrates the positive relationship between nature connection and nature experiences, and suggests that it may be equally important to promote nature experiences at any life stage if increasing nature connection is the goal.
Environmentally active people: the role of autonomy, relatedness, competence and self-determined motivation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-06-2016
Explaining landholders' decisions about riparian zone management: The role of behavioural, normative, and control beliefs
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2005
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2005.03.002
Abstract: Water quality is a key concern in the current global environment, with the need to promote practices that help to protect water quality, such as riparian zone management, being paramount. The present study used the theory of planned behaviour as a framework for understanding how beliefs influence decisions about riparian zone management. Respondents completed a survey that assessed their behavioural, normative, and control beliefs in relation to intentions to manage riparian zones on their property. The results of the study showed that, overall, landholders with strong intentions to manage their riparian zones differed significantly in terms of their beliefs compared to landholders who had weak intentions to manage their riparian zones. Strong intentions to manage riparian zones were associated with a favourable cost-benefit analysis, greater perceptions of normative support for the practice and lower perceptions of the extent to which barriers would impede management of riparian zones. It was also evident that willingness to comply with the recommendations of salient referents, beliefs about the benefits of riparian zone management and perceptions of the extent to which barriers would impede riparian zone management were most important for determining intentions to manage riparian zones. Implications for policy and extension practice are discussed.
Demographic category membership and leadership in small groups: A social identity analysis
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2006
Corporate environmentalism and top management identity negotiation
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 29-06-2012
DOI: 10.1108/09534811211239209
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine the narratives of acceptance and resistance to the introduction of corporate environmentalism. Despite recognition that managers and senior executives play a primary role in corporate environmentalism, relatively few researchers have examined how top management supports, accepts, negotiates, disregards, or rejects the implementation of corporate environmentalism within their organization. By considering how members of a top management team reflect on corporate environmentalism the aim is to examine potential identity management conflicts that arise during the implementation of environmentally sustainable initiatives within organizations. A qualitative approach was adopted to address the research aims. By taking this approach the paper examines the lived experience of the participants as they internalized corporate environmentalism as part of their identity and as part of the organizational identity. Data collection involved 15 semi‐structured interviews with senior executives and board members of a large Australian hospital. Based on an in‐depth thematic analysis of interview transcripts, it was found that in iduals attributed a dominant discourse to corporate environmentalism based on their lived experience of organizational change for sustainability. Six dominant discourses were identified. Three were resistant to corporate environmentalism: the pragmatist, the traditionalist, and the observer and three were supportive of corporate environmentalism: the technocentrist, holist, and ecopreneur. The findings demonstrate that although top management operated in and experienced the same organizational context, the narratives and identities they constructed in relation to sustainability varied widely. These findings emphasize the challenges inherent in developing an organizational identity that incorporates sustainability principles and the need for change management strategies to appeal to the erse values and priorities of organizational managers and executives.
Responses of group members to procedural discrimination: The role of ingroup prototypicality
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-03-2011
Abstract: The current research examines how peripheral group members differ from prototypical group members in reacting to procedural discrimination (favoring self vs. favoring other procedures). Results of two experiments reveal that peripheral members react more negatively when the authority procedurally favors a prototypical member over them than when the authority favors them over a prototypical member. In contrast, reactions to procedural discrimination do not differ among prototypical members, and peripheral members paired with another peripheral member. The current research provides support for the literature on ingroup prototypicality, which argues that peripheral members are highly insecure about their inclusion in the group. It also furthers our insights into how group members’ responses to procedural experience are qualified by social identity concerns.
Determinants of young Australians' environmental actions:The role of responsibility attributions, locus of control, knowledge and attitudes
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2012
The psychological roots of anti-vaccination attitudes: A 24-nation investigation
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 04-2018
DOI: 10.1037/HEA0000586
Abstract: Strengthening of antivaccination movements in recent decades has coincided with unprecedented increases in the incidence of some communicable diseases. Many intervention programs work from a deficit model of science communication, presuming that vaccination skeptics lack the ability to access or understand evidence. However, interventions focusing on evidence and the debunking of vaccine-related myths have proven to be either nonproductive or counterproductive. Working from a motivated reasoning perspective, we examine the psychological factors that might motivate people to reject scientific consensus around vaccination. To assist with international generalizability, we examine this question in 24 countries. We s led 5,323 participants in 24 countries, and measured their antivaccination attitudes. We also measured their belief in conspiracy theories, reactance (the tendency for people to have a low tolerance for impingements on their freedoms), disgust sensitivity toward blood and needles, and in idualistic/hierarchical worldviews (i.e., people's beliefs about how much control society should have over in iduals, and whether hierarchies are desirable). In order of magnitude, antivaccination attitudes were highest among those who (a) were high in conspiratorial thinking, (b) were high in reactance, (c) reported high levels of disgust toward blood and needles, and (d) had strong in idualistic/hierarchical worldviews. In contrast, demographic variables (including education) accounted for nonsignificant or trivial levels of variance. These data help identify the "attitude roots" that may motivate and sustain vaccine skepticism. In so doing, they help shed light on why repetition of evidence can be nonproductive, and suggest communication solutions to that problem. (PsycINFO Database Record
Water demand management research: A psychological perspective
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 05-2010
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008408
Communicating about sustainable urban water management: community and professional perspectives on water-related terminology
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-04-2018
Assessing the validity of crowdsourced wildlife observations for conservation using public participatory mapping methods
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
Environmental attitudes as WTP predictors: A case study involving endangered species
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2013
Integrating social identity theory and the theory of planned behaviour to explain decisions to engage in sustainable agricultural practices
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2008
You did, so you can and you will: Self-efficacy as a mediator of spillover from easy to more difficult pro-environmental behaviour
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2016
Resources that Help Sustain Environmental Volunteer Activist Leaders
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S11266-023-00561-3
Abstract: Environmental activism organizations depend on recruiting and retaining in iduals willing to engage in leadership tasks on a voluntary basis. This study examined the resources which help or hinder sustained environmental volunteer activist leadership behaviors. Interviews with 21 environmental volunteer activist leaders were analyzed within a Resource Mobilization Theory framework. While six resources supporting sustained engagement in volunteer activist leadership behaviors were identified, only three were sought by all participants: time, community support, and social relationships. Money, volunteers and network connections were considered valuable resources, however their acquisition generated significant additional administrative burdens. Social relationships sustained volunteer activist leaders through fostering feelings of positive emotions connected with the group. We conclude with suggestions for organizations seeking to increase retention of activist volunteer leaders: namely larger organizations sharing their resources to reduce administrative demands on volunteer activist leaders in smaller organizations developing movement infrastructure groups to build and sustain networks and the prioritization of positive relationships within volunteer teams.
It's political: How the salience of one's political identity changes climate change beliefs and policy support
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2014
How do marine and coastal citizen science experiences foster environmental engagement?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2018.02.080
Abstract: Citizen science programs enable community involvement in scientific research. In addition to fostering greater science literacy, some citizen science programs aim to foster engagement in environmental issues. However, few data are available to indicate whether and how citizen science programs can achieve greater environmental engagement. We survey in iduals choosing to attend one of seventeen reef citizen science events and examine the extent to which attendees reported three indicators of greater environmental engagement: (i) willingness to share information, (ii) increased support for marine conservation and citizen science, and (iii) intentions to adopt a new behavior. Most participants reported being willing to share information about reef conservation (91%) and described increased support for marine science and conservation (87%). Half of participants (51%) reported intentions to adopt a new conservation behavior. We found that key elements of the citizen science experience associated with these outcomes were learning about actions to protect reefs and coasts (procedural learning), experiencing surprise, and experiencing negative emotions about environmental problems. Excitement was also associated with positive outcomes, but only in participants who were less likely to see themselves as environmental, or were less frequent visitors to reefs and coasts. Importantly, the association between factual learning and environmental engagement outcomes was limited or negative. These findings suggest that the way citizen science experiences make people feel, may be more important for fostering future environmental engagement than factual-based learning. When designing citizen science programs for community members, these findings provide a reminder to not focus on provision of factual information alone, but to highlight environmental impacts while providing meaningful experiences and building environmental skills.
Australian politicians' beliefs about climate change: Political partisanship and political ideology
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
The Characteristics, Activities and Goals of Environmental Organizations Engaged in Advocacy Within the Australian Environmental Movement
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-12-2020
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