Presentation Type
Poster Presentation
Symposium Date
4-20-2011
Abstract
Measures of locus of control, optimism, consideration of future consequences of behavior, environmental concern, belief in global warming, biospheric altruism, corporate skepticism, economic motivation, recycling attitudes and motivation, and political ideology were used to predict environmentally-responsible behaviors. Regression analyses revealed that the best predictors were perceived importance of recycling, economic motivation, recycling motivation, and corporate skepticism. These results suggest that global dispositional variables, such as optimism and locus of control, are not particularly useful predictors of environmentally-responsible behaviors. Instead, environmentally-specific dispositions, such as economic motivation and recycling motivation are much better predictors, as well as attitudinal dimensions such as perceived importance of recycling, environmental concern, belief in global warming, corporate skepticism, and political ideology. This suggests that efforts to increase environmentally-responsible behaviors are best directed at impacting environmentally-relevant dispositions and attitudes.
Recommended Citation
Isaacson, Anna; Knuppel, Ken; and Lawrence, Ashley, "Attitudinal and Dispositional Predictors of Environmentally-Responsible Behavior" (2011). Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 48.
https://scholar.valpo.edu/cus/48
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