Going Green? Modeling the Impact of Environmental Concerns and Perceptions of Transportation Alternatives on Decisions to Drive

By Benjamin Gardner, C. Abraham. 2010

155 citations recorded by the source corpus.

A theory-of-planned-behavior-based model of intra-city driving incorporating cognitions concerning non-car transportation use, personal and descriptive norms, and the environment was tested. Participants were 190 residents of a UK city with good non-car travel infrastructure. Intention predicted 57% of the variance in behavior. In addition, 49% of intention variance was predicted by car-use attitudes, perceived behavioral control, descriptive norms, non-car-use attitudes, subjective norms, and personal norms. Concern and efficacy for reducing car-related environmental problems were associated with non-car attitudes and personal norms. Results demonstrate the importance of modeling transportation choice on cognitions relating to both car use and alternative transportation.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Transportation

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How researchers see this paper

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In Applied Psychology

1. C. Abraham
2. I. Ajzen
3. Christin Hoffmann
4. Susan J. Ball
5. M. White
6. Jane E. Klobas
7. S. Skippon
8. Benjamin Gardner

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. I. Ajzen
2. S. Skippon
3. C. Abraham
4. Christin Hoffmann
5. Susan J. Ball
6. M. White

In Transportation

1. I. Ajzen
2. C. Abraham
3. S. Skippon

Citations in the corpus

• What cognitive mechanisms predict travel mode choice? A systematic review with meta-analysis (2017, background): “Car use was mainly operationalised as driving or using a private motorised vehicle but occasionally included taxi journeys (Gardner & Abraham, 2010), taxi and motorcycle use (Verplanken et al., 2008), or car share and rental cars (Hunecke, Haustein, Grischkat, & Bohler, 2007).”
• The theory of planned behaviour is alive and well, and not ready to retire: a commentary on Sniehotta, Presseau, and Araújo-Soares (2015, result): “Consistent with this argument, it has been shown that including a measure of attitudes towards not performing a behaviour, in addition to attitudes towards performing the behaviour, can significantly improve prediction of intentions (Ajzen & Sheikh, 2013; Gardner & Abraham, 2010).”
• Heading towards a multimodal city of the future (2014, unknown): “choice [81] 4 A.”
• Fertility intentions: An approach based on the theory of planned behavior (2013, background): “Indirect evidence for this hypothesis comes from a study in a different domain, use of the car versus alternative transportation (Gardner and Abraham 2010).”