A Panel Study of the Relationships Between Social Media Interactions and Adolescents’ Pro-Environmental Cognitions and Behaviors

IF 5.2 2区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Behavior Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.1177/00139165231194331

A. González, Laura Vandenbosch, Ann Rousseau

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Abstract

Despite the circulation of climate content on social media, little longitudinal research has explored their relations with pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors. Considering that individual behaviors, in conjunction with structural change, are critical to mitigate climate change, this two-wave panel study among 657 adolescents examined how social media interactions (i.e., exposure, liking, commenting, sharing and posting of climate messages) reciprocally related to adolescents’ pro-environmental cognitions (i.e., descriptive and injunctive norms, attitudes) and behavior. The study showed transactional relationships between self-posting and sharing of climate content over time. Pro-environmental behavior at Wave 1 (W1) positively related to all cognitive variables at Wave 2 (W2), yet no reciprocal relationship occurred as none of the cognitive variables (W1) predicted behavior (W2) over time. Moreover, with the exception of the positive link between “liking” (W1) and attitudes (W2), no (reciprocal) relationships between social media interactions and adolescents’ pro-environmental cognitions and behavior occurred over time.

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社交媒体互动与青少年亲环境认知和行为关系的小组研究

尽管气候内容在社交媒体上流传，但很少有纵向研究探讨它们与环保态度和行为的关系。考虑到个体行为与结构变化相结合对缓解气候变化至关重要，这项针对657名青少年的两波小组研究考察了社交媒体互动（即气候信息的曝光、点赞、评论、分享和发布）与青少年的环保认知（即描述性和强制性规范、态度）和行为之间的相互关系。该研究表明，随着时间的推移，自我发布和气候内容共享之间存在交易关系。第1波（W1）的亲环境行为与第2波（W2）的所有认知变量呈正相关，但由于没有任何认知变量（W1）预测行为（W2。此外，除了“喜欢”（W1）和态度（W2）之间的积极联系外，随着时间的推移，社交媒体互动与青少年的环保认知和行为之间没有（互惠）关系。

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Environment and Behavior Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Environment & Behavior is an interdisciplinary journal designed to report rigorous experimental and theoretical work focusing on the influence of the physical environment on human behavior at the individual, group, and institutional levels.