Motivations to Act for the Protection of Nature Biodiversity and the Environment: A Matter of “Significance”

IF 5.2 2区心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Behavior Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1177/0013916518824376

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.

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保护自然生物多样性与环境的行动动机:一个“意义”问题

环境激进主义被定义为一系列困难的亲环境行为，在意义探索理论（SQT）的概念框架内进行分析。在研究1中，对欧盟的两组人进行了40次采访：致力于自然的行动者（CAN，n=25）和致力于社会的行动者（CAS，n=15）。结果表明，意义探索（SQ）激励每个群体坚定地致力于他们选择的行动，他们之间的主要区别在于他们的意识形态（亲社会与亲环境）。在研究2中（N=131），评估了SQ与实施困难的环保行为的意图之间的关系。结果表明，SQ越高，实施困难的环保行为的倾向就越高，但不是一般或容易的行为。此外，支持环境的意识形态越高，SQ通过牺牲意愿对困难行为的间接影响就越强。

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Environment and Behavior Multiple-

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13.30

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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.