Motivational orientation explains the link between political ideology and proenvironmental behavior

AK Sherman, AJ Rowe, S Bird, S Powers… - Ecopsychology, 2016 - liebertpub.com
Liberals and conservatives show consistent differences in attitudes toward proenvironmental
behavior (or PEB); this research seeks to understand why. We investigated the role of …

The role of perceived government style in the facilitation of self-determined and non self-determined motivation for pro-environmental behavior

KJ Lavergne, EC Sharp, LG Pelletier… - Journal of Environmental …, 2010 - Elsevier
Most North Americans are concerned about the environment and feel that responsibility for
its protection lies primarily with government; however, no research to date has examined the …

What predicts environmental activism? The roles of identification with nature and politicized environmental identity

MT Schmitt, CML Mackay, LM Droogendyk… - Journal of Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abundant evidence suggests that pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) is promoted by a
subjective sense of oneness with nature—what we conceptualize as “identification with …

An experiment assessing how different forms of utility inform the choices of environmental activists

B Farrer - Environment and Behavior, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Existing research explains pro-environmental behavior as being motivated by personal
values. In this article I extend this framework to examine not just the choice of whether to …

[HTML][HTML] Going green (and not being just more pro-social): do attitude and personality specifically influence pro-environmental behavior?

JS Kesenheimer, T Greitemeyer - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The current research examines the extent to which attitudes and personality traits are
predictive of pro-environmental behavior (PEB). Concretely, we tested the relationship …

[HTML][HTML] Explaining personal and public pro-environmental behaviors

PQ Yang, MLN Wilson - Sci, 2023 - mdpi.com
A global crisis generated by human-made climate change has added urgency to the need to
fully understand human pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) that may help slow down the …

[HTML][HTML] Perceptions of self-motives and environmental activists' motives for pro-environmental behavior

N Geiger - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The manuscript presents a thematic analysis of a US adult sample's self-reported motives
and perception of environmental activists' motives to engage in pro-environmental behavior …

Motivation for adopting pro-environmental behaviors: the role of social context

F Pongiglione - Ethics, Policy & Environment, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This article investigates the origin of the lack of motivation for adopting significant pro-
environmental behavior (PEB). I identify three main barriers to motivation: the feeling that …

From plastic bottle recycling to policy support: An experimental test of pro-environmental spillover

HB Truelove, KL Yeung, AR Carrico, AJ Gillis… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Little research has investigated the extent to which performance of one pro-environmental
behavior (PEB) spills over to increase or decrease support for pro-environmental policies or …

[HTML][HTML] Pro-environmental behaviour and support for environmental policy as expressions of pro-environmental motivation

EJ Sharpe, G Perlaviciute, L Steg - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
To effectively limit climate change, we need people to both behave pro-environmentally and
support environmental policy. However, there are conflicting results about whether people …