Assessing Sustainable Behavior and its Correlates: A Measure of Pro-Ecological, Frugal, Altruistic and Equitable Actions
By C. Tapia-Fonllem, V. Corral-Verdugo, Blanca Fraijo-Sing, M. Durón-Ramos. 2013
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Measures of sustainable behavior (SB) usually include the self-report of activities aimed at the conservation of the natural environment. The sustainability notion explicitly incorporates both the satisfaction of human needs and the need of conserving the natural environment. Yet, the assessment of sustainable behaviors rarely considers the protection of the social environment as situation to investigate. In this paper, we propose the use of an instrument assessing SB, which includes the report of pro-ecological and frugal actions in addition to altruistic and equitable behaviors. The responses provided by 807 Mexican undergraduates to a questionnaire investigating those four instances of SB were processed within a structural equation model. Emotional (indignation due to environmental destruction, affinity towards diversity, happiness) and rational (intention to act) factors assumedly linked to sustainable behavior were also investigated. Significant interrelations among pro-ecological, frugal, altruistic and equitable behaviors resulted, suggesting the presence of a higher-order-factor that we identified as SB. This factor, in turn, significantly correlated with the rest of the investigated pro-environmental factors.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing
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- Pro-environmental behavior correlates with present and future subjective well-being (2016, background): “Pro-environmental behavior has been found to be positively correlated with measures of subjective well-being (Brown and Kasser 2005; Corral-Verdugo et al. 2011; Jacob et al. 2009; Tapia-Fonllem et al. 2013).”
- Extended Theory of Planned Behavior (ETPB): Investigating Customers’ Perception of Restaurants’ Sustainability by Testing a Structural Equation Model (2018, background): “[93] suggested that in relation to sustainability, consumers tended to show a certain consistency between the choices they intended to make and those that they actually carried out.”