Future Temporal Focus and Proenvironmental Behavior: A Trait Activation Perspective

IF 1 4区心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Social Behavior and Personality Pub Date : 2023-06-20 DOI:10.2224/sbp.12410

Bin Wen, Yue Zhou, Limin Xi, Meng Zhang, Li Xu

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Abstract

Environmental protection is not only a social dilemma, it is also a temporal dilemma influencing the survival of all human beings. Drawing from the temporal focus literature, we proposed that individuals with a stronger (vs. weaker) future temporal focus would engage in more proenvironmental behaviors via greater environmental commitment. Integrating trait activation theory, we further proposed that environmental resource scarcity would strengthen the process we had already proposed. We tested our proposals with 591 university students in Eastern China, who completed an anonymous survey. The data were collected in three waves with a 2-week interval between each wave. A structural equation model was applied to test the hypotheses. Future temporal focus significantly influenced participants' proenvironmental behavior via their environmental commitment, and the positive influence was stronger when the environmental resource was scarce. This study enriches the environmental protection literature by providing a temporal framework. The theoretical and practical implications of proenvironmental behavior are discussed.

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未来时间焦点与亲环境行为:一个特质激活的视角

环境保护不仅是一个社会困境，也是一个影响全人类生存的时代性困境。根据时间焦点文献，我们提出未来时间焦点较强(相对较弱)的个体会通过更大的环境承诺参与更多的亲环境行为。结合性状激活理论，进一步提出环境资源稀缺性会强化上述过程。我们在中国东部的591名大学生中测试了我们的建议，他们完成了一项匿名调查。数据分三波收集，每波间隔2周。采用结构方程模型对假设进行检验。未来时间焦点通过环境承诺显著影响被试的亲环境行为，且在环境资源稀缺时正向影响更强。本研究提供了一个时间框架，丰富了环境保护文献。讨论了亲环境行为的理论和实践意义。

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Social Behavior and Personality PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

7.70%

发文量

117

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