Mass-participant sport events and sustainable development: gender, social bonding, and connectedness to nature as predictors of socially and environmentally responsible behavior intentions

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-253
Author(s):  
Stavros Triantafyllidis ◽  
Lindsey Darvin
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Bonding ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
Connectedness To Nature ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Behavior Intentions ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Sport Events ◽  
Participant Sport

scholarly journals The Effect of Tourism Experience on Tourists’ Environmentally Responsible Behavior at Cultural Heritage Sites: The Mediating Role of Cultural Attachment

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 565
Author(s):  
Zhenfeng Cheng ◽  
Xin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Cultural Experiences

With the rapid development of tourism and the explosive growth of tourist arrivals, the destructive effects of tourist activities on the ecological environment of tourist destinations are becoming increasingly severe, seriously restricting the sustainable development of these destinations. As one of the most important types of current tourist destinations, cultural heritage sites are in urgent need of a well-protected ecological environment. Environmental protection has already become an important task for their sustainable development. The behavior of tourists during visits, which plays a central role in tourist activities, has gradually become a key factor affecting the environment of tourist destinations. Therefore, approaches to effectively identify the mechanisms underpinning tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior have become a focus of both theoretical and practical domains. Based on a stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theoretical framework, our study established a mediation model based on cultural attachments, and explored the mechanisms affecting how cognitive, emotional, and cultural experiences influence tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior. The experience-attachment-behavior transmission mechanism was also considered. A structural equation model was applied to empirically test the 588 pieces of data collected from tourists involved in heritage tourism. The test results show that the cognitive, emotional, and cultural experiences delivered from tourist destinations of cultural heritage, positively affected tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior. Cultural attachment plays a partially mediating role between cognitive, emotional, cultural experiences and tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior. These study results not only support theoretical research on the relationship between tourism experiences and tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior, but also indicate the effective driving pathways of tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior at the practical level. As such, this research provides both theoretical reference and practical guidance for the sustainable development of tourist destinations with diverse cultural heritages.

scholarly journals Can an Immersion Exhibit Inspire Connection to Nature and Environmentally Responsible Behavior?

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Pennisi ◽  
N. Qwynne Lackey ◽  
Stephen M. Holland
Keyword(s):  
Visitor Experience ◽  
Connection To Nature ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
Connectedness To Nature ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Visitor Experiences ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Visitor Research ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behaviors ◽  
Psychological Dimensions

Nature centers, museums, zoos, and other exhibit-based institutions need to sustain or increase visitation for economic viability. To generate visitor interest, exhibits have become more interactive, with immersion exhibits becoming increasingly popular. Visitor research has traditionally focused on learning or social aspects of the visitor experience rather than psychological dimensions related to attitudes, values, and behaviors. Yet nature-focused institutions increasingly support broad-based issues, such as encouraging connection to nature and environmentally responsible behavior. This paper explores how an immersion exhibit without personal interpretation, impacts connectedness to nature, intentions for environmentally responsible behaviors, and other aspects of visitor experiences. Short visits to a free-flying butterfly exhibit were found to augment visitors’ connectedness to nature and environmentally responsible behavioral intentions. Visitors also described how they appreciated the intensely beautiful surroundings, were awe-struck, felt a great deal of peace and relaxation, and felt oneness with nature.

scholarly journals Determinants and Mechanisms of Tourists’ Environmentally Responsible Behavior: Applying and Extending the Value-Identity-Personal Norm Model in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongxun Xu ◽  
Xuechao Wei ◽  
Shih-Chih Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Personal Norm ◽  
Mediational Role ◽  
The Impact

It is well recognized that tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior is a prominent contributor to the sustainable development of tourist destinations. Based on the original Value-Identity-Personal norm (VIP) model and self-efficacy theory, this study proposes an extended VIP model for exploring the generalized determinants of tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior and investigating the impact mechanism of this behavior in China. A total number of 435 self-reported questionnaires were collected on a professional online survey platform. Our research results indicated that the extended VIP model could significantly and validly explain tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior. Specifically, biospheric values have an indirect but rooted effect on tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior. Furthermore, two indirect paths play the same mediational role between biospheric values and tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior. The findings expand the application field of the VIP model, contribute to a better understanding for academic researchers of tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior and shed light on managerial implications for practitioners in the sustainable development of tourist destinations.

scholarly journals CAN SOCIAL MEDIA BE A TOOL FOR INCREASING TOURISTS’ ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR?

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 1211-1222
Author(s):  
Enamul HAQUE ◽  
◽  
Tinikan SUNGSUWAN ◽  
Sarunya SANGLIMSUWAN ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Beneficial Effect ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Place Attachment ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible

For the sustainable development of a tourism destination, environmentally responsible behavior (ERB) is a vital issue. This study developed an implicated model based on the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) framework showing the usages of social media by tourists regarded as a stimulus; environmental awareness, and place attachment generated from using social media regarded as an organism; and tourists' ERB thereby bringing behavioral intension regarded as responses. The integrated tourists' ERB model was experimentally tested using survey data from 467 Bangladeshi tourists by SEM-based methodology. The study found that social media has a beneficial effect on environmental awareness and place attachment, negatively impacting ERB. Furthermore, environmental awareness and place attachment has a favorable impact on ERB. This article discusses theoretical discoveries as well as practical consequences.

scholarly journals How Does Environmental Interpretation Affect Psychological Well-Being? A Study Conducted in the Context of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8522
Author(s):  
Hoang Viet Nguyen ◽  
Wilson Dang ◽  
Hoang Nguyen ◽  
Thi Nguyen Hong Nguyen ◽  
Thi My Nguyet Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmental Interpretation ◽  
Psychological Contract Violation ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible

The COVID-19 crisis has challenged and generated severe impact on the global society, economy, and environment. Under this pandemic context, governments and organizations around the world have issued and strengthened environmental policies and regulations to protect the environment and human health. However, the extant knowledge about how people’s interpretation of environmental policies and regulations influence their psychological well-being in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is still limited. This study, therefore, investigates the impact of environmental interpretation on psychological well-being with the mediating role of environmentally responsible behavior and the moderating role of psychological contract violation. Using the data from a large sample of 960 residents in China, results of structural equation modeling show a positive relationship between environmental interpretation and psychological well-being, and this relationship is mediated by environmentally responsible behavior. Notably, psychological contract violation has a moderating effect on the indirect effect of environmental interpretation on psychological well-being via environmentally responsible behavior. These findings have several important implications for policymakers in environmental sustainability and pandemic planning.

COPING STYLE AND THREE PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASURES ASSOCIATED WITH ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 661-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osamu Iwata
Keyword(s):  
Coping Style ◽  
Factor Loading ◽  
Willingness To Accept ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Psychological Measures ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Japanese Male ◽  
Environmentally Responsible

Questionnaires containing five multi-item 5-point scales were administered to 153 Japanese male and female undergraduates. Data of each of the scales were factor analyzed and, as a rule, items with a factor loading of .40 or over were selected. The scale for coping style produced three factors: avoidance, self-deceptive optimism and problem solving. Each of the other four scales produced one factor. Using the total score for each scale or factor, multiple regression analysis was applied to environmentally responsible behavior with six predictors entered simultaneously. Self-deceptive optimism and willingness to accept sacrifices for global environmental protection proved to be significant predictors of environmentally responsible behavior, but the four other predictors did not.

Shopping for Clothes and Sensitivity to the Suffering of Others: The Role of Compassion and Values in Sustainable Fashion Consumption

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (10) ◽  
pp. 1119-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Maria Geiger ◽  
Johannes Keller
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Research ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Proenvironmental Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
Negative Relation ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Sustainable Fashion ◽  
Purchase Criteria

The positive relation of biospheric and altruistic values as well as the negative relation of egoistic and hedonic values to environmentally responsible behavior, are established findings in environmental psychological research. Recent findings revealed that compassion, the sensitivity to the suffering of other individuals, is also relevant for proenvironmental intentions. We tested the role of compassion in combination with universal altruistic, biospheric, egoistic, and hedonic values concerning an environmentally responsible behavior with an explicit social and hedonic component: sustainable fashion consumption. In a large survey study ( n = 981), we found that compassion was positively linked to sustainable purchase criteria. The manipulation of compassion in an online study ( n = 197) resulted in a small, positive effect on the willingness to pay extra for fair trade clothes. Moreover, we found that hedonic values showed a consistent negative relation to sustainable fashion consumption in both studies, thus corroborating former research on the critical relevance of hedonic values in the context of proenvironmental behavior.

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