E. Molinario, A. Kruglanski, F. Bonaiuto, M. Bonnes, Lavinia Cicero, F. Fornara, M. Scopelliti, J. Admiraal, A. Beringer, T. Dedeurwaerdere, Wouter deGroot, J. Hiedanpää, P. Knights, L. Knippenberg, Chris Ovdenden, K. Polajnar Horvat, F. Popa, Carmen Porras-Gomez, Aleš Smrekar, N. Soethe, J. Vivero-Pol, R. V. D. van den Born, M. Bonaiuto
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Abstract
Environmental activism, defined as a range of difficult pro-environmental behaviors, is analyzed within the conceptual framework of Significance Quest Theory (SQT). In Study 1, 40 interviews were carried out on two groups of people in the European Union: Committed Actors for Nature (CANs, n = 25) versus Committed Actors for Society (CASs, n = 15). Results demonstrated that Significance Quest (SQ) motivates each group to be strongly committed to their chosen action and the main difference between them being in their ideology (pro-social vs. pro-environmental). In Study 2 (N = 131), the relationship between SQ and intention to enact difficult pro-environmental behaviors was assessed. Results suggested that the higher the SQ, the higher the tendency to enact difficult pro-environmental behaviors, but not average or easy ones. Moreover, the higher the pro-environmental ideology, the stronger the indirect effect of SQ on difficult behavior through willingness to sacrifice.
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.