Influencing mechanism of tourist social responsibility awareness on environmentally responsible behavior

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.

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Environmentally responsible behavior of residents in tourist destinations: the mediating role of psychological ownership

Journal of Sustainable Tourism ◽

10.1080/09669582.2021.1891238 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Yan Liu ◽

Zhirui Qu ◽

Zhiyi Meng ◽

Yan Kou

Keyword(s):

Psychological Ownership ◽

Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Tourist Destinations ◽

Responsible Behavior ◽

Environmentally Responsible

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COPING STYLE AND THREE PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASURES ASSOCIATED WITH ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.2002.30.7.661 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 30 (7) ◽

pp. 661-669 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

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.

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

Environment and Behavior ◽

10.1177/0013916517732109 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 50 (10) ◽

pp. 1119-1144 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

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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WASTE AND DIRT IN SHORT FOLKLORE FORMS

Traditiones ◽

10.3986/traditio2020490107 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 125-139

Author(s):

Saša Babič

Keyword(s):

Waste Management ◽

Environmental Pollution ◽

The Other ◽

Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽

Archival Material ◽

Responsible Behavior ◽

Other Hand ◽

Environmentally Responsible ◽

Words And Images ◽

Contemporary Topic

The article examines the concept and metaphorical meaning of waste and dirt in short folklore forms, including archival material (phrasemes, proverbs, and beliefs) and also internet memes as a new, contemporary folklore form. Waste and dirt are traditionally conceptually linked to metaphors of unwanted, used, lower-quality, or even immoral. Slovenian proverbs and phrasemes, on the other hand, do not thematize waste management or handling dirt; only beliefs show some part of this. New forms, on the other hand, emphasize environmental pollution directly, using concepts of waste and pollution combined in words and images intended to persuade the viewer or recipient to change their behavior into environmentally responsible behavior. Waste and dirt reveal themselves as important metaphorical elements, as well as a contemporary topic for new folklore genres.

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Does Positive Contact Between Residents and Tourists Stimulate Tourists’ Environmentally Responsible Behavior? The Role of Gratitude and Boundary Conditions

Journal of Travel Research ◽

10.1177/00472875211048938 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 004728752110489

Author(s):

HongWei Tu ◽

JianFeng Ma

Keyword(s):

Social Exchange ◽

Social Exchange Theory ◽

Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽

Moderated Mediation Model ◽

Responsible Behavior ◽

Environmentally Responsible ◽

Positive Contact ◽

Indirect Relationship ◽

The Relationship

This study explored how and when positive contact between residents and tourists stimulates tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior. Drawing on social exchange theory, we verified a moderated mediation model in which gratitude mediated the link between positive contact and tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior, while agreeableness moderated the relationship between positive contact and gratitude. Data were collected from 691 visitors to Mount Wuyi. The findings revealed that positive contact directly affected tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior and that this link was mediated by gratitude. Furthermore, agreeableness significantly moderated the effects of positive contact on gratitude. In particular, the effect of positive contact on gratitude was stronger for tourists with high agreeableness. Additionally, agreeableness also strengthened the indirect relationship between positive contact and tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior through gratitude—which was, again, stronger for highly agreeable tourists.

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