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

This study aimed to explore the relationship between place attachment and environmentally responsible behavior, and to verify the mediating role of destination psychological ownership in the above relationship. We surveyed scuba divers in Taiwan as the research subjects and obtained 361 valid questionnaires. After conducting a literature review and examining related theories, we proposed a theoretical model and used the structural equation model for analysis. The results showed that the overall model fitted well, place dependence directly affected place identity, and place dependence and place identity both positively and directly influenced environmentally responsible behavior. Furthermore, the testing showed that destination psychological ownership could play a mediating role on the relationship between place attachment and environmentally responsible behavior.

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

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su14010565 ◽

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.

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

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13158522 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (15) ◽

pp. 8522

Author(s):

Hoang Viet Nguyen ◽

Wilson Dang ◽

Hoang Nguyen ◽

Thi Nguyen Hong Nguyen ◽

Thi My Nguyet Nguyen ◽

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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.

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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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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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Environmentally Responsible Behavior in Ecotourism: Exploring the Role of Destination Image and Value Perception

Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research ◽

10.1080/10941665.2013.818048 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 19 (8) ◽

pp. 876-889 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Yen-Ting Helena Chiu ◽

Wan-I Lee ◽

Tsung-Hsiung Chen

Keyword(s):

Destination Image ◽

Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽

Value Perception ◽

Responsible Behavior ◽

Environmentally Responsible

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Examining the mediating role of celebrity endorsement in green advertisements to improve the intention of Egyptian Millennials towards environmental behaviours in tourist destinations

Tourism & Management Studies ◽

10.18089/tms.2020.160401 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 7-21

Author(s):

Noha Ahmed Kamel ◽

Keyword(s):

Structural Equation ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Celebrity Endorsement ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Tourist Destinations ◽

Viable Solution ◽

Study Results ◽

Environmentally Responsible ◽

Environmental Behaviours

Celebrity-endorsed advertisements have a powerful influence, especially on young generations like millennials. At the same time, green advertising is a growing trend used by many destinations and organisations for environmental protection initiatives. Celebrity endorsement in green advertisement could be a viable solution for many marketers in tourist destinations to engage and support millennials to be eco-friendly during their travels. Hence, the purpose of this study is to investigate the mediating role of using celebrities as endorsers in green ads to influence the intention of Egyptian millennials towards environmental behaviours in tourist destinations. Descriptive analysis, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) have been carried out using SPSS and Amos to address the objectives of this study. Results show that celebrity endorsement mediates the relationship between green advertisements and the intentions of millennials to behave in a sustainable way in tourist destinations. This study makes the first attempt to provide evidence of how celebrities can be employed as a mediating variable in green advertisements to motivate Egyptian millennials to be environmentally responsible.

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

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11133711 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (13) ◽

pp. 3711 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

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.

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A Motivational Model for Environmentally Responsible Behavior

The Spanish Journal of Psychology ◽

10.5209/rev_sjop.2012.v15.n2.38876 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 648-658 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Carmen Tabernero ◽

Bernardo Hernández

Keyword(s):

Intrinsic Motivation ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Extrinsic Motivation ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Research Model ◽

Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽

Responsible Behavior ◽

Environmentally Responsible

This paper presents a study examining whether self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation are related to environmentally responsible behavior (ERB). The study analysed past environmental behavior, self-regulatory mechanisms (self-efficacy, satisfaction, goals), and intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in relation to ERBs in a sample of 156 university students. Results show that all the motivational variables studied are linked to ERB. The effects of self-efficacy on ERB are mediated by the intrinsic motivation responses of the participants. A theoretical model was created by means of path analysis, revealing the power of motivational variables to predict ERB. Structural equation modeling was used to test and fit the research model. The role of motivational variables is discussed with a view to creating adequate learning contexts and experiences to generate interest and new sensations in which self-efficacy and affective reactions play an important role.

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