Assessing the structure of UK environmental concern and its association with pro-environmental behaviour
By Rebecca Rhead, Mark James Elliot, Paul Upham. 2015
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Understanding the structure and composition of environmental concern is crucial to the study of society's engagement with environmental problems. Here, we aim to determine if components of the VBN model emerge when applying a combination of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to a large UK dataset, one designed without a priori commitment to a theoretical model. A three-factor model was confirmed to be the most substantively and methodologically optimal. Two of the factors correspond to the VBN's ecocentric and anthropocentric factors. However, the third factor does not routinely map onto the third factor of the VBN (ecocentric concern). We have called our factor ‘denial’, as high scorers tend to be responding positively to statements that would suggest inaction. The association between these factors and level of reported pro-environmental behaviour is assessed.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing
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- The dangers of distrustful complacency: Low concern and low political trust combine to undermine compliance with governmental restrictions in the emerging Covid-19 pandemic (2020, background): “The general positive impact of concern on behaviour change has been identified across domains, for instance, for environmental (Rhead et al., 2015), health (Iversen & Rundmo, 2002), or organisational behaviour (Rundmo & Hale, 2003).”
- The Importance of Environmental Knowledge for Private and Public Sphere Pro-Environmental Behavior: Modifying the Value-Belief-Norm Theory (2019, background): “Environmental concern is conceptualized as a measure that shows the degree to which people are concerned about environmental problems and dangers to the earth and for ‘the harmony of nature’ [79,80].”