Can health psychology help the planet? Applying theory and models of health behaviour to environmental actions.

By Elizabeth K. Nisbet, Mary Gick. 2008

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Predictors of Nature Connection Among Urban Residents: Assessing the Role of Childhood and Adult Nature Experiences (2018, background): “…& Murphy, 2011) and reduced anxiety (Martyn & Brymer, 2016), as well as numerous proenvironmental outcomes such as increased environmental concern (Nisbet & Gick, 2008), development of biospheric values (Martin & Czellar, 2017), and willingness to engage in prosocial and sustainable behaviors…”
Sustainable Well-Being: A Potential Synergy between Sustainability and Well-Being Research (2011, background): “Indeed, sustaining the health of nature is essential for human physical and psychological well-being (Nisbet & Gick, 2008).”
Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour: the role of sustainability-focused events (2013, background): “Nisbet and Gick (2008) argue that environmental psychologists and policymakers should apply models of health behaviour change to develop more innovative and successful environmental interventions.”
The health-performance framework of presenteeism: Towards understanding an adaptive behaviour (2020, background): “Health behaviour models suggest two types of ‘cues to action’: internal, such as evaluations of one’s health symptoms, and external, such as information on factors that can support enactment of the behaviour (Nisbet and Gick, 2008).”
The Use of Message Framing in the Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Behaviors (2011, background): “As people gain more information and skills, they pass through the stages in a linear fashion, but they may progress at different rates or even relapse into an earlier stage (Nisbet & Gick, 2008).”
Protection Motivation Theory as an Explanatory Framework for Proenvironmental Behavioral Intentions (2017, background): “This increased psychological distance is associated with lowered risk perceptions, making it difficult for people to see the risk-protective value of proenvironmental behaviors (Nisbet & Gick, 2008).”